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
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
A sound of Rowling thunder
Scotland’s government and police seem determined to turn themselves into a laughing stock
Talking to young man about Andrew Tate
You cannot educate the urge to transgress out of young men
An array of civilised music
Walter Kaufmann: 3rd piano concerto, 3rd symphony &c. (CPO)
The Rwanda Bill and the rule of law
Our constitutional tradition strictly separates international law from domestic law
The problem with “extremism”
Violence and intimidation are deplorable, but can there be a clear definition of a concept as subjective as “extremism”?
Don’t ban the billboards
Campaigns against advertising are pure public health fanaticism
The Conservative betrayal of selective schooling
Grammar schools are great — but there are not enough of them
Saving my own bacon
Only the particularly pig-headed will stick it out in the pork farming business
Rugby’s debt to Mrs T
Rugby league was transformed from a fringe working-class activity into part of national life
How did Conservative modernisation go?
David Cameron’s “A-List” has turned out to be second-rate
Michael Gove’s convenient conversion won’t be enough
Britain’s economic dysfunction runs very deep indeed