Louise Perry

2 weeks ago | spectator.com.au | Louise Perry

If Elon Musk gets his way, and Mars becomes our newest New World, I had always assumed that the people who emigrated there would be rather like the Pilgrim Fathers – ascetic, homogenous, insular and highly religious. The sort of group that has historically had the psychosocial qualities necessary for withstanding a long voyage to a dangerous frontier.

1 month ago | louiseperry.co.uk | Louise Perry

An audio version of this essay – read by me – is available below the paywall. Young German women are radicalising. As John Burn-Murdoch, chief data reporter at the FT,wrote this week:The gender gap continues to widen, but contrary to what is often assumed, young men continue to vote roughly in line with the overall population, while young women have swung very sharply left… young women’s AfD vote is significantly lower than average (14 vs 21), and leftwing vote far higher (34 vs 9).

2 months ago | dailymail.co.uk | Louise Perry

Bonnie Blue and Lily Phillips seem to be locked in a grotesque kind of arms race. These two pornographers in their 20s, who both hail from the same part of Derbyshire, make a living from performing ever more disturbing stunts for their OnlyFans subscribers. Last October, Ms Phillips made international headlines when she had sex with 101 men in one day, all on camera.

2 months ago | louiseperry.co.uk | Louise Perry

My guest today is David Betz, Professor of War in the Modern World at King's College London, and specialist in the study of insurgency and counterinsurgency, information warfare, cyberwarfare, and propaganda. We spoke about David's 2023 article titled 'Civil War Comes to the West' and his fear that such a conflict could break out in Britain within the next five years.

2 months ago | louiseperry.co.uk | Louise Perry

An audio version of this essay – read by me – is available below the paywall. Some readers will know that I did an undergraduate degree in anthropology at SOAS, a school of the University of London, and that the three years I spent there probably go a long way towards explaining why I’m like this.