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Did you read with Tim Montgomery?

Welcome to the latest edition of the Times Opinion

podcast.

I'm Tim Montgomery, comment editor of The Times.

Joining me today, I have three times columnists,

Hugo Rifkind, Jenny Russell, and Alice Thompson.

In Saudi Arabia last weekend,

63 women were brave enough to defy the regime and take part in the greatest gender-based protest in a generation by driving their cars to the shops. A country which treated any other minority, Jews, black people, so badly would be an international pariah.

So why are we so willing to be relativist in our values when it comes to women?

In the past few months we've discovered that we're all the targets of secret mass surveillance by the British and American spy agencies

The security services can now track everything we do online every call we make and every text we send

They can know everything about us,

...