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…
Commissioner Baird: A Pioneer
Vera Baird begins her rather remarkable book about her first term as Northumbria’s elected Police and Crime Commissioner with a story about rape. That is…
Election in Ireland: The dirty war and sexual abuse in the Adams family
Ireland prepares to surprise itself in the 2016 election to its Dail (parliament) on 26th February — an election in which, like elsewhere in Europe, smaller…
Leon Brittan — who needs an apology now?
Tory grandees, former ministers and yesterday’s men queue up to denounce the police for investigating sexual abuse allegations against members of the Tory establishment. They…