Kim Thomas
Kim Thomas is a freelance journalist specialising in education and technology. She is the author of Primary School: A Parent's Guide.
Misguided or misgendered?
Police are investigating a woman for raising safeguarding concerns about Girl Guide commissioner Monica Sulley
The Welsh variant
Why is Cardiff actively spreading queer theory in schools?
Losing the generation game
The local elections reveal a bitter demographic conflict
How to become a cult writer
What does it take for an author to become idolised way beyond their literary merit?
The tide has turned on abortion
The overturning of Roe v Wade is an opportunity for the UK to reflect on its own abortion laws
Unreal liberalism for an unreal world
Individualism looks very different to the lives it excludes and discards
A real world of consciousness
Communism in Poland was brought down by an underground network of learning, journalism and culture that flourished in defiance of state control
Earthly pleasures
The thrill of digging up — and eating — the first new potatoes of the year
An unaccustomed wine
30 years ago English wine was changed forever, and a vinicultural revolution began
Wakefield and the revival of Labour Britain
After an electoral disaster in the 1930s, Wakefield kickstarted the new Labour era. Can it do the same for Starmer?
Cleaning up
The fate of a Whitehall cleaner, Emanuel Gomes, should not be brushed aside