Sociolinguist Rob Drummond explains why accent discrimination is a form of prejudice which can be extremely harmful, whether it is light mocking in a social setting or ‘linguistic profiling’ in a court case. He shows how women and other minority groups in the UK and US are particularly likely to ...

Hannah Durkin and Christienna Fryar discuss the stories of the last 110 captives sold into slavery in the Atlantic slave trade. Drawing on Durkin's intensive archival, historical, and sociological research they discuss her new book Survivors which follows the lives of captives from their kidnappi...

Mary Beard is Britain’s best known classicist. Widely admired for her scholarship and popular television programmes about the ancient world, she is also one of this country’s most prominent feminists. By refusing to be cowed by the misogynistic trolls who have abused her on Twitter, she has becom...

As head of TED, Chris Anderson has had a ringside view of the world’s most influential thinkers. TED’s annual conference in Vancouver sees thousands of delegates flock from across the world to hear presentations from pre-eminent scientists, artists, entrepreneurs, political leaders and CEOs on th...

Flora Carr and historian Francesca Peacock discuss Carr’s debut novel 'The Tower'. At the heart of this work of literary feminist fiction is historical figure Mary Stewart — better known Mary, Queen of Scots — who is reimagined during her time of imprisonment at Lochleven Castle in Scotland. In t...

Why are middle-aged women these days subject to so much rage and hatred – frequently from people who see themselves as kind and ‘on the right side of history’? What explains the popularity of the Karen meme, which references a stereotypically privileged white woman whom everyone feels entitled to...