Felix Hardinge

Louis Theroux, the Lib Dem Alan Whicker, has now had his turn at the manosphere. His new Netflix film Inside the Manosphere has gone down more or less as you would expect: clippable footage of insecure men, prompted along by Theroux’s trademark awkward questioning. But none of this is especially difficult. The men he films

In recent years a popular assumption has arisen in Britain that we are a nation of ‘curtain twitchers’ with an affinity for petty authoritarianism. This claim is usually supported by issue-specific polling: historic support for ID cards, contemporary backing for lockdowns, public health interventions such as smoking restrictions, or proposals to ‘Keep Children safe online’.