Jon Pike
Dr Jon Pike is co-convener of the Open University Gender Critical Research Network and a philosopher of sport and ethics
A step change in sports policy
The UK Sports Councils’ new guidance on trans inclusion is a breath of fresh air
The stories of a cemetery
There is much to learn about human life in a graveyard
What Trump gets right about NATO
There needs to be a shifting in the balance of responsibility from America to Europe
Lucia di Lammermoor, Royal Opera House
It’s an amazing paradox that something as tawdry as opera can produce such a pure expression of what it is to be human
Have hope, have kids
How parenthood can steel us against stress and despair
Reject Naominomics
Ideas like Naomi Klein’s are bad for the economy (and for the environment)
Peers but not equals
Ferdinand Ries: Symphonies 1&2 (Ondine); Franz Clement: Solo violin works (Naxos)
Eroticism contra porn
Sex scenes should be salvaged from hardcore pornography
The incarnation of vice
Sex, gypsies, smoking, smugglers, sex, bullfighting, murder, and did we mention…sex?
Dismantle the HR state
Opaque standards committees are putting British public life in a stranglehold
Counting Covid costs
We need a broad perspective of Britain’s pandemic failures