Helen Lewis

What looked at first to me like a trivial issue opened up a vital debate about the importance of women's achievements in our society.

The neuroscientist's first novel has clunking cliches, terrible characters and dialogue about the "dissociation of reproduction from copulation". Finishing it has become a nerd challenge, writes Helen Lewis.

The Labour leader presides over an admirably mixed frontbench - but things aren't so rosy in the policy-making back rooms.

A fascinating psychological portrait of a woman who seems to feel most alive when under fire.

Somehow I don’t think I’ll get many takers for my next Faeces Are A Feminist Issue rally.

The Invisible Men Project aims to reveal what men who visit sex workers think about the women involved.

I have five thoughts on the row about the BBC playing an anti-Thatcher song.

Also: how many journalists does it take to watch some smoke change colour?

Whistleblowers are often incredibly badly treated - even when they have sheaves of documents to prove wrongdoing. Imagine being a whistleblower when you know that half your listeners don't think that being patted on the leg sounds like such a big deal, anyway.

DSMO, the website that abused Mary Beard, did far more than host threads dedicated to obscenity and offence. Its users took delight in bullying and harrassing their victims.

Because nothing makes you interested in tech products like oiled buttocks. That's, like, science.

Helen Lewis's "First Thoughts" column.

How internet communities encourage bad behaviour online.

Grace Coddington's memoir is neither brutally honest nor amusingly bonkers. Thank God for the cat psychic.