Lucy Hunter Blackburn
Dr Lucy Hunter Blackburn is a former senior civil servant in the Scottish Government. Her roles included Head of Higher Education Division, Head of Reducing Reoffending Division and Director of Policy at Historic Scotland. She co-founded Murray Blackburn Mackenzie
John Swinney’s Isla Bryson moment?
The Scottish Government must be made to face the facts on sex and gender
Keir Starmer cannot ignore us
The gender debate is not going to disappear
How trans activists captured the hate crime agenda
The “hate crime” agenda is based on bad policing and worse politics
The revised Scottish Prison Service transgender prisoner policy is not fit for purpose
Any work for bringing it into force should be stopped
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
Dissertations and their discontents
PhD funding is a valid subject for debate but social media mobs are not the answer
Biden’s legacy of escalation
His last decisions could determine the state of global politics
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
The dangerous lure of Europe
We must disincentivise economic migration to European states
End of the Long Peace?
Our technological and institutional sophistication will not eliminate conflict
Badenoch’s “muscular liberalism” is a non-starter
The Conservative leader sounds hopelessly out of touch
Should you really admit to regretting having kids?
Lamenting parenthood creates a psychological trap