Sorry, Nicholas Hoult, you’ll never appease the trans mob
Anyone who has balanced a job with a social life will, at some point, have phoned the boss at 9.05am and croaked through a beery fug: ‘I’m not sure I’ll…
Anyone who has balanced a job with a social life will, at some point, have phoned the boss at 9.05am and croaked through a beery fug: ‘I’m not sure I’ll…
Every modern progressive government operates on a convenient myth: the idea that every ‘protected class’, minority interest, and social justice cause forms a single, harmonious mosaic. In the UK and…
‘Positive masculinity’ is one of those phrases that usually makes me dry-heave, alongside ‘mental-health awareness’ and ‘sourdough’. But basketball star Enes Kanter Freedom has shown precisely this, using the physical…
It’s widely believed that Kenneth Tynan was the first person ever to say ‘fuck’ on British television, in 1965. But, wouldn’t you know, Miriam Margolyes had a go first, in…
Between meetings, I called another group member, a gay man in his thirties. He repeated that he didn’t have an issue with the change. I asked if he had any…
‘Please, please, please listen to James O’Brien today.’ The email came from a woman listening to LBC’s coverage of the new Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) code on single-sex…
One of the questions I’m asked most often is: ‘Don’t you ever get tired of talking about trans?’ Which is fair enough given my work at Genspect, which advocates for…
A decade ago, a rift in feminism that had been growing for more than a generation broke into public consciousness. First came an increasingly noisy brand of ‘gender’ feminism. This…
It is the blackest irony, like a sick joke by the universe, that Charlie Kirk was gunned down as he discussed gun violence. That word – ‘violence’ – was the…
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