Denise Fahmy
Denise Fahmy has many years’ experience in arts administration. She is a visual arts specialist and worked for Arts Council England for 15 years. In 2023 an Employment Tribunal found Denise’s claim of harassment she’d experienced at ACE due to her gender critical beliefs, was well-founded. ACE subsequently apologized to her. Her legal costs were partly met by 1,284 well-wishers through a successful Crowd Justice campaign.
Dispatches from the frontlines of the culture wars
Let’s make irrational and censorious “inclusivity” guidance history
Artists must be allowed to dissent
British culture is drowning in shrill orthodoxies
The art world must escape gender theory
Grim, irrational ideas still dominate the Arts
Artistic freedom is worth the risk
Arts Council England’s revised guidance offers cause for concern over freedom of expression
Against identitarian inclusivity
The good, the bad and the incoherent in Arts Council England’s inclusivity drives
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The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
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He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
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Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
How the “Burnham bind” will rewrite British politics
If Andy Burnham wins in Makerfield, Labour has a bigger opportunity than people think
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
An indefensible defence policy
Why the country’s strategic ambitions are incompatible with our welfare bill
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
How the Boat Race sank
Yet another great British tradition is disappearing beneath the waters of history
Wunderbar wines
The love affair between British and German wine is an ancient one
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
Election objections
Andy Burnham doesn’t need a general election mandate
Scotland’s biggest legal scandal
Hundreds of men could have being denied their right to a fair trial because of a justice system that rules important character evidence inadmissible
