There’s a familiar pattern to a column by The Guardian’s Arwa Mahdawi. Then comes the moral verdict, delivered by someone who’s already decided what you are before reading what you wrote. So her latest swipe, this time circling comments made by Jesse Watters, is less analysis and more muscle memory. To even entertain the idea that men and women might, on average, bring different traits to leadership becomes, in her telling, evidence of troglodytic thinking. Different styles, different contexts, yet both ran headlong into the same hard limits of governance.

Source: The Guardian April 06, 2026 22:32 UTC