News about Germaine Greer

The 85-year-old feminist, who is best known for her tumultuous views in recent years, told The Louis Theroux Podcast that men still don't believe their wives need to have a name. She also talked about how she used to drink in the same Manchester pub as George Best - and every woman in the room, including her, adored him. Germaine Greer, a left-hand on the Louis Theroux podcast, is captured on the right. Inset top: Louis Theroux, inset bottom: George Best)

Eve Playwright Eve Ensler, 70, is the author of The Vain Monologues, which she first performed in 1996 and then published in 1998 - 25 years ago. The project was based on a series of monologues about vaping. My Angry Vagina (a rant about tampons, douches, and gynaecological equipment) was one of the chapters. My Vagina Was My Village, a new form of the My Vain My Village series (compiled from the testimonies of women abused in rape camps during the 1992-95 Bosnian War).

Cosmo's parents immigrated to London in 1964, just at the start of a swinging London. They bought a four-story terraced Georgian house in Islington, North London, for about £10,000. 'It was a complete dump that, under my parents' influence, became a vibrant dump with character,' he says. Fran Fran to his mother Fran in the living room and the kitchen to the right. Photographed inset: The demolished piano that once graced Cosmo's parents' wall is now on view at Tate Britain.

STEPHEN GLOVER: Who would want to be a Jewish citizen of this country, as anti-Semitic attacks rise, and protesters demand the extinction of Israel?Even more to the point, who would relish being a young Briton of Jewish ancestry at school or university while such hatred is being openly expressed? tens of thousands of marchers marched in London on Saturday. The majority of people were well behaved, but some were outraged: 'From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.' This phrase has been properly understood as calling for the demise of Israel - whose territory lies between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea - and is therefore regarded as offensive and threatening by many Jews.'

ANDREW NEIL: I've never weighed in on any of the topics in the transgender debate. I know I tend to stick to mainstream politics and economics, which are my specialties. My tweet was a baptism of fire. 'Welcome to the dark side,' a Cabinet minister told me.' They weren't wrong, in fact. I was quickly branded a 'Terf.' I'd heard this word used to shame JK Rowling and other transgender activists, but I explained that it wasn't harmful against me because I didn't even know what it meant. Someone helpfully explained that it stood for 'Transitionary Feminist' (implying, for example, that feminist rights were protected at the expense of trans rights).

STEPHEN GLOVER: The Labour candidate in Selby and Ainsty, Keir Mather, is just 25 years old. I'm curious to know what he would bring to Parliament at such a young age. He studied at Oxford, where he mumbled to a university newspaper that the Union was 'hosting Germaine Greer the week after Pride [Week], an individual who has made dehumanizing and irresponsible remarks regarding transgender people and human beings.'

JENNI MURRAY: I'm afraid that my reaction to the suggestion that British women should follow their contemporaries in Spain, Indonesia, South Korea, Zambia, Taiwan, and Japan and be granted the freedom to paid menstrual leave was far from sisterhood. I heard myself shouting, rather loudly: 'For goodness' sake, girls, just man up!' I'm sure this is a bit inflammatory statement from a lifelong feminist, but all biological women suffer from what is described as 'the curse.'