Maiden Mother Matriarch

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 | 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.

Jan 10, 2025 | louiseperry.co.uk | Louise Perry

An audio version of this essay – read by me – is available below the paywall. A tweet from an anonymous British twitter user:The left pretending there’s ‘always been coverage’ of the scandal is particularly sick. The Charlene Downes case would have been forgotten if it wasn’t spammed on 4chan as an infographic for years on end. Anons preserved information like medieval monks copying transcripts. He’s referring, of course, to Rotherham.

Jan 1, 2025 | louiseperry.co.uk | Louise Perry

An audio version of this essay – read by me – is available below the paywall. All essays are partially paywalled for the first 30 days after publication. You all know what I mean by the word ‘Rotherham.’ In The Spirit of Terrorism,Jean Baudrillard observes that there is no true synonym for ‘9/11’ – no one refers to the ‘World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks’ or the ‘Bin Laden attacks’, but just to the date itself, typically in its abbreviated form.