The Secret of Richard Webster
Witch hunting in North Wales In lush mountainous Wales, an English literary scribe, Richard Webster, wandered, with his tape recorder, formulating a hypothesis that witch…
Author: Beatrix Campbell
Witch-hunters
Peter Ellis cases rises from the dead New Zealand’s child abuse controversy: sex offender gets to the Supreme Court A case that flooded New…
Bad Dreams …Greens and Gender
July 2020 ON BEING NICE – DREAM ON Molly Scott Cato is one of the Green Party’s popular politicians, an economist, and until recently an…
Popes and the Pill
…and the NHS For 60 years the Catholic Church has managed to insinuate itself, without our knowledge or consent, into the administration of the…
Peter Tatchell, women and children – why are we so disheartened and worried?
Here is a letter I’ve sent to Peter Tatchell following his bitter tirade against feminists. I should explain: We had been in email conversation for a…
Culture wars: sexual harassment. How do we know it will stop?
These are some of the thoughts I shared with a splendid gathering in Melbourne, We Revolt At Dawn, organised by the Search Foundation and the…
Is the Prime Minister a girl job or a boy job?
Would anyone think it was a question worth asking, whether the Prime Minister is a boy job or a girl job after Britain’s experience of Margaret…
Letter to the Working Class Movement Library
Dear Trustees, I’m writing to you to support the Library’s invitation to Julie Bindel to speak about being a young working class lesbian. It was…
Corbynism
What would it take for the biggest political party in Western Europe to be accorded a bit of respect? Will the mass media reports from…
TRANS/formations
Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse, transgender debates have got — if not worse exactly, then — nastier. The description ’transphobic’ has been thrown…