Emily Wheater
Emily Wheater is a final year PhD student in neuroscience on a Wellcome Trust funded program at the University of Edinburgh. She can be found on twitter at @EWheater
The child trans judgement is a step in the right direction
The ruling that under 16s should be assumed unable to consent to puberty blockers means that this unregulated experiment may finally be drawing to a close
Transitioning to a medical scandal
Emily Wheater and Ellen Pasternack say the gender change lobby is failing young people who change their mind
The meaning of depoliticisation
How the establishment made political questions unanswerable
Life amid the ruins
Any captured, destroyed city, offers the same problems for the new owners
Get smartphones out of school
Young people desperately need a break from social media
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
What’s the point of university during a freedom of speech crisis?
Students should be taught to do more than agree
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
Why the Conservatives will be anti-woke
Standing up to the thought police is key to making change
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR