Why this trans person is troubled by a conversion therapy ban
Conversion practices are in the news again, at least if you listen to the BBC. We woke up to the…
A four-day week won’t save teachers from burnout
Campaigners have urged Bridget Phillipson to give teachers in England and Wales a day out of school every week with…
Why are we testing puberty blockers on children again?
Puberty blockers are powerful drugs with unproven benefits and significant risks. Those were not my words, they came from a…
There’s no easy way to manage single-sex spaces
Transgender people could be banned from single-sex spaces based on how they are perceived by other people according to the…
Why has Martine Croxall been censured by the BBC?
Martine Croxall’s eyes spoke louder than her words when she corrected the clumsy and unnatural use of ‘pregnant people’ on…
Where’s the money for Labour’s triple science plan?
Science, which has been kicked about since GCSEs replaced O-Levels in 1986, is in for another shake-up. The latest review…
School teachers should not be allowed to work from home
Teacher recruitment and retention have been associated with the word ‘crisis’ since I joined the profession thirty years ago. But…
Why is the YHA allowing males to stay in women’s dorms?
On April 16, the Supreme Court ruled that the meaning of the terms ‘sex’, ‘man’ and ‘woman’ in the Equality…
ITV’s Transaction is painfully unfunny
The plot of Transaction, a six-part comedy currently showing on ITV2, is simple. A supermarket accused of transphobia hires a…
No, British trans people aren’t at risk of ‘genocide’
The Supreme Court judgment on the definition of a woman on 16 April restored a degree of sanity to a…
Bristol museum’s trans exhibition is like something out of a cult
The Bristol Museum and Art Gallery is one of those places that makes me feel uncomfortable. I feel picked-on even…
The tyranny of GCSEs
Deep within the workings of an electric motor lies a split-ring commutator. It reverses the current flowing through the coil…
The truth about trans rights in Britain
The Supreme Court judgement on sex and gender was a welcome return to common sense. As far as the Equality…
Starmer’s words about ‘trans women’ are too little, too late
When will Keir Starmer finally show some leadership over the most fundamental distinction in human society: the difference between men…
This legal definition of ‘woman’ has restored sanity to the law
The UK Supreme Court has ruled that a woman is someone whose sex is female. The judgment, handed down this…
What happened to the Birmingham I love?
My beloved Birmingham, the city I called home for 26 years and where my children grew up, is drowning in…
How the NHS gave up on recording biological sex
If data is worth collecting, then surely it is worth collecting properly. As a scientist I’d argue that unreliable data…
Why isn’t Streeting cracking down on puberty blockers?
If a government’s first duty is to protect its citizens, then Wes Streeting must step up to defend some of…
The legacy of Covid will stay with children for life
Five years ago in March 2020, schools fell silent as Covid-19 swept across the world. At first, there was a…
How some atheists fell for the new religion of gender identity
The Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF) is probably not on the radar of most people in the UK. It’s a US-based non-profit…
The gender war is slowly being won. But there’s no room for complacency
For ten years, gender identity ideology ploughed through western societies. It started quietly, a decade earlier, when a group of…
In defence of Connie Shaw
Here is a philosophical question for our universities to ponder. Should the ‘D’ in ‘EDI’ extend to diversity of opinion?…
Why did Children in Need fund a charity linked to a paedophile scandal?
Last week the BBC announced that the 2024 Children in Need appeal had raised more than £39 million for charity. With such…
Parents should be worried about Labour’s trans plans
Keir Starmer’s new Office for Equality and Opportunity – launched earlier this month – purports to ensure that ‘equality is at the…
The truth about Led By Donkeys
Love them or loathe them, it’s hard not to have noticed Led By Donkeys. The protest group – made up,…
