What's got my attention this week #78

Links and recs to get you through the weekend

Gisèle Pelicot, an exception to the usual suspects for the “Person of the Year” mantle

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• Gisèle Pelicot has been named Person of the Year by The New European. Jamie Klingler declares Pelicot her “own personal Che Guevara”. £
• Sarah Jessica Parker is judging the Booker Prize. (Gift link.)
• “Assad has gone, but a revolution that doesn’t free women is no revolution at all.” Brilliant piece by

Mona Eltahawy

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• Love Garbage’s Shirley Manson on ageing on TikTok.
•

Elissa Altman

on gifts, manners and memory. ❤️
• Stellar British news broadcaster Mishal Husain is leaving the BBC for Bloomberg. Taken for granted, or would a bloke have parlayed it into a payrise and a bigger job? £
• Let

Leah McLaren

introduce you to the new, new sex…