Debbie Hayton

How some atheists fell for the new religion of gender identity

31 December 2024 10:01 pm

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

28 December 2024 5:00 pm

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

11 December 2024 7:32 pm

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?

22 November 2024 9:38 pm

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

21 October 2024 7:53 pm

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

22 September 2024 3:25 pm

Love them or loathe them, it’s hard not to have noticed Led By Donkeys. The protest group – made up,…

The trouble with Trafalgar Square’s transgender tribute

19 September 2024 4:50 pm

Seven hundred and twenty-six plaster face casts of transsexual, non-binary or gender non-conforming people were unveiled yesterday in London’s Trafalgar…

What has the SNP got against school blazers?

12 September 2024 11:36 pm

The much-maligned school blazer has come under attack once again, this time by Scottish government. In new guidance issued this morning, head…

Why are a record number of Brits applying to change their gender?

3 September 2024 4:13 pm

The number of people applying for a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC) has reached a new record. Government figures revealed that…

J.K. Rowling deserves a break from social media

23 August 2024 4:30 pm

Let’s give Rowling a break. For four years, she has spoken up consistently and courageously in defence of women’s rights…

The New York Times questions the Cass review

15 August 2024 2:05 am

Hilary Cass’s review of gender identity services for children and young people put a stop to doctors playing fast and…

Should the NHS really be spending money on child gender clinics?

8 August 2024 4:00 pm

The Tavistock’s notorious Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) clinic in London – which prescribed puberty blockers to children – closed…

The simple way to protect women’s sport at the Olympics

1 August 2024 4:00 pm

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) needs to find some far better answers to the transgender question if it is to…

What Elon Musk gets right about the plight of trans kids

24 July 2024 3:30 pm

Elon Musk is the richest person in the world but it’s clear that money can’t always buy happiness. The X/…

Will Anneliese Dodds finally see sense on trans rights?

8 July 2024 11:51 pm

The waiting is over. Anneliese Dodds has been named as minister of state for women and equalities, and will attend…

How Keir Starmer can make it up to Rosie Duffield

6 July 2024 12:40 am

Congratulations to Rosie Duffield, who has won re-election for a third time as Labour MP for Canterbury. For many women…

Why Labour keeps floundering on the trans toilet question

2 July 2024 4:55 pm

Labour politicians who cannot give straight answers on sex and gender will need to get their thinking caps on, assuming…

Labour’s dreadful gender recognition reforms

24 June 2024 7:43 pm

Is Keir Starmer trying to snatch an unlikely defeat from the jaws of victory, or is he so confident of…

JK Rowling’s accusations will hurt Starmer

22 June 2024 8:15 pm

Perhaps JK Rowling should be the leader of the opposition. She describes herself as ‘left leaning’, she has a huge…

Labour’s dangerous pledge to ban conversion therapy

14 June 2024 2:17 am

An incoming Labour government will enact legislation that could prevent gender-questioning children getting the help they need to come to…

JK Rowling and the toxicity of social media pile-ons

12 June 2024 7:16 pm

Alex Kay-Jelski is the latest individual to realise that the internet never forgets and, when it suddenly remembers, the impact…

The significance of J.K. Rowling’s defence of Kemi Badenoch

4 June 2024 5:52 pm

The opinion polls might be projecting a massive Labour majority, but there is a dynamic to this election that could yet derail…

Sunak’s gender attack will hurt Labour

3 June 2024 8:56 pm

If the country has not had enough sex by now, it may have by the election. Political sex, that is…

Why the Tories’ national service idea is unworkable

28 May 2024 9:39 pm

When the Tories start talking about national service they really are grasping at straws. The concept might possibly appeal to…

The crisis in the NHS’s adult gender clinics

26 May 2024 3:30 pm

Hilary Cass’s review of children’s gender services revealed how young people are being badly let down by the NHS. The…