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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Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
The misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
On travellers and trail hunting
Left-wingers have bizarrely irrational double standards when it comes to protecting culture
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
Grin and bear it
Carelessness and frivolity sabotage any attempt at a serious discussion
Sir David Attenborough at sea
RRS Sir David Attenborough is a ship worthy of the great man’s name
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
