Jo Phoenix
Professor Jo Phoenix, Chair in Criminology, The Open University. After spending two decades researching sex, gender and sexualities as well as youth justice, Jo Phoenix helped co-found The Open University Gender Critical Network and is currently writing about academic freedom, ethics, politics and research.
Is transphobia an academic critique?
The abhorrent treatment of Kathleen Stock by Sussex UCU is a loss for academic freedom
Sectarianism contra socialism
How did “left-wing” MPs end up voting for the VAT exemption for private schools?
Ultra processed arguments
Public health commentators cannot seem to decide what is safe to eat
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
Don’t bite the hand that feeds the birds
The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes
Should you really admit to regretting having kids?
Lamenting parenthood creates a psychological trap
Keir’s comms catastrophe
Labour’s goal is clear but its messaging is anything but
Tablets of stone
Tech firms increasingly set the rules when it comes to education