‘The personal must not be the political’

The separation of private and public life was one of the key gains of the Enlightenment.

But this distinction is continually being eroded by prying governments and Big Tech.

In Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life, Tiffany Jenkins unpacks the challenges facing the private sphere today .

She recently joined Brendan O'Neill on his podcast, The Brendan O’Neill Show .

Much of the new left’ became disenchanted with the public realm in the 1950s and 1960s .

They turned to the idea of the 'authentic self' and realising the self.

Feminists also considered the private realm to be the site of the patriarchy.