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
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories
The vague vision of Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer was competent but directionless on foreign policy
Homes for Ukraine — and everywhere else
Why were some non-Ukrainians far more likely to enter Britain under a scheme meant for Ukrainians?
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
