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Matthew Perry, the best Friend I never knew
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The Bluestocking: On Writing
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The Bluestocking 361: Five Years On
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The Bluestocking 351: Woodchippers, male flight and Fred-Fred
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The Bluestocking: Keir Starmer is Ruthless
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The Bluestocking 365: Elon's concubines and smartphone lobotomies
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The Bluestocking 375: Evita, Skrmetti, Wolfe
Not bam bam bam bam bam bam, but bama bampa barama bam bammity bam bam bammity barampa
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The Bluestocking 374: Bad deaths and bad bets
the mistake that catches out a long-embedded Russian spy
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The Flawed Genius of the People's Psychologist
An exclusive extract from The Genius Myth
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The Bluestocking 373: Dark Elf and Madeley
people assume she’s a feminist when in fact she’s just a narcissist
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Genius unboxing
Appreciating the Easter egg on the cover of the US edition of The Genius Myth.
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The Bluestocking 372: New Media and natalism
Have you eaten a burrito prepared by an Ethiopian camel farmer?
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A high IQ makes you an outsider, not a genius
The first extract from The Genius Myth is here!
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The Bluestocking 371: A walking ovation
Things got easier when I remembered the Lib Dems
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The Bluestocking 370: Biden enablers and cat-sitters
I call seltzer “sparkling water” and settle for bagels that taste like caulk
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