In her cover piece for this week’s Spectator, Alison Wolf describes the divide between ‘alpha females’ and other women. Here are some of the starkest differences, illustrated using figures from her book The XX Factor. 1. The rise of the alpha female. ‘In England, by the age of 16, girls are dividing into two distinct
‘And that one’s our pay.’
‘I despair about the way this country’s going. It looks as if I’ll be the first person in my family for generations forced to get a job.’
‘Mum, Dad! Are we nearly there?’
‘We’re going to my Grandad’s. He’s got this awesome stairlift.’
‘You don’t think he’ll regret it when he’s older?’
‘Was it something I said on Twitter?’
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‘These team-building exercises are getting ridiculous.’
‘I told you alchemy was nonsense.’
‘The house red, sir.’
‘It’s wonderfully waspish.’
‘We need the long summer holidays to recharge our batteries after organising strikes.’
Lady Thatcher’s club Sir: Charles Moore’s excellent paragraph (Notes, 20 April) on Baroness Thatcher’s life achievement in the context of much less social advantage than that of Sir Winston Churchill concludes on one mildly false assertion: ‘At the end, as at the beginning, she had no club.’ In fact, from 1978 until the end, she