‘While we have learned a few new things about how Jeffrey Epstein operated, justice still has not been even remotely served.’ avi Torrent/TAS24/ for TAS Rights Management‘While we have learned a few new things about how Jeffrey Epstein operated, justice still has not been even remotely served.’ avi Torrent/TAS24/ for TAS Rights ManagementThe year in patriarchy: Taylor Swift’s engagement, Trump 2.0 and the Epstein filesArwa MahdawiThe year 2025 saw a Swift engagement, a rapid rollback of rights and a slow release of the heavily redacted Epstein filesThe year 2025 would have been far better if we could have sent a few billionaires and world leaders into intergalactic exile. Instead, we had to make do with Katy Perry spending 11 minutes on the edge of space as part of Blue Origin’s all-female crewed mission. Perry promised us all that, in service of women’s empowerment, the crew would “put the ‘ass’ in astronaut” and “make space and science glam”.