Deirdre O’Neill
Deirdre O’Neill is a filmmaker who created the documentary Adult Human Female. She tweets at @AHFdoco
Union blues
The directors of Adult Human Female explain why they are taking their trade union to tribunal
Not coming to a venue near you
How activists have forced a documentary film underground
A right to protest?
The right to dissent is often at odds with the will of the mob
Miriam Cates is right about surrogacy
It is a fundamentally dishonest and exploitative practice
The building that inspired Orwell
Was there an appetite at the time for monumental buildings, equivalent to those in Moscow?
Do not sanction the truth
Stating biological facts should not be cause for heavy-handed complaints proceedings
Jonathan Glazer’s speech was an affirmation of Jewishness
Critics who accuse him of denying his identity have things backwards
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar
The public health fanatics have a new enemy in their sights
The poverty of miners’ strike nostalgia
We should not romanticise a futile and sometimes thuggish struggle
How the Greens blackened their name
The leadership of the Greens allowed gender fundamentalism to undermine the party
Why we don’t police anti-Christian hate
Jewish and Muslim communities rightly get protections and attention from the government — but Christians are routinely overlooked
The “conversion therapy” ban still makes for bad law
Recent amendments have failed to answer serious concerns about its implications