Antonia Stephens
Antonia Stephens is an independent researcher who works principally on education and health issues. She has a personal and professional interest in autism. She publishes regularly at antoniastephens.com
Coronavirus: Following the herd on school closures
Is the rush to close schools really necessary?
An abundance of viral caution
Online and distance learning aren’t solutions for shut schools
Autism and the cost of care
For all US healthcare’s faults, it outperforms the NHS on autism provision
J.K. Rowling and the very Freudian fandom
Many Harry Potter fans feel a strange compulsion to hate the thing they love
Why the goal glut?
Football — never boring, even when Italy is defending a 1–0 lead — has only grown more exciting
How NatCon was saved
An attempted cancellation flopped in Brussels — but the bad taste remains
The conspiracy illusion
Marianna Spring is looking at the finger, not the moon
A sound of Rowling thunder
Scotland’s government and police seem determined to turn themselves into a laughing stock
Against rights radicalism
A noble cause has mutated into an obstructive and anti-democratic force
Women MPs should be representing women’s interests
It was ludicrous to talk about microaggressions in the aftermath of an alkaline attack
Is public health a protected belief?
A new case will decide if prohibitionism in the name of public health constitutes a philosophical belief under the Equality Act
Michael Gove’s new definition of “extremism” is extremely silly
We cannot define such a vague term with such vague terms