RIP Stuart Hall: A Great and Lovely Man
We have lost the living presence of the great and lovely Stuart Hall. So many of us have been transformed by his radical questions and answers.
Plebgate Morphs into Plodgate
Black Bodies, Women’s Bodies: Spectres Haunting the Police Representatives of the Police Federation are called to explain themselves to a Parliamentary committee in November 2013.…
A Very British Murder
Reports of the horrendous death of Bijan Ebrahimi — a disabled man living in Bristol — seem doomed to point in all the wrong directions.…
BBC Radio Festival 2013: Blah-Blah-Blah…Democracy
Very agreeable session yesterday with Rod Liddle and Adam Gee. Sparkling — though sparks did not fly!
From Jasmine Beckford to Daniel Pelka: a history of chaos and calumny
In three decades of child protection, an alliance between state and children has been compromised by the compliance culture. Read more of my article in…
New Feminism is Fabulous
I was recently invited to join the discussion on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme with the wonderful Laura Bates, who launched Everyday Sexism. Great. But…
Dear Baby
Dear Duchess and Duke, Welcome to your baby. And Dear Baby, Welcome to our world. What would be the greatest gift that your parents could…
A Domestic Goddess Is Only A Woman After All…
…and Charles Saatchi Shows Us What Domestic Violence Looks Like: It is tempting to command Nigella Lawson to morph from her retro persona as domestic…
Thinking Allowed: Remembering Diana
Did Princess Diana’s death lead to a major shift in British culture? Have a listen to the discussion on BBC Radio 4’s Thinking Allowed: Professor…
What Is Wrong With Men?
As part of BBC Radio 4 Today programme’s series about men, Beatrix Campbell, Tim Samuels and Laurie Penny debate how the place of men in…