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
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
The soullessness of “social mobility”
Underprivileged young people need culture, not just “skills”
The poverty of “Singapore-on-Thames”
Britain can take inspiration from other countries but it cannot merely imitate them
Fear and tension in Frankfurt
Mass immigration has exacerbated societal dysfunction in Germany
Contra Hitchens on the election
It was reasonable not to vote to prevent a Labour majority
The football world’s war on free speech
Football authorities are attempting to insist on what political values players and supporters should represent
Word pictures at a gallery
Paintings are appreciated best when there are few people around to spoil the view
It’s called X, not XXX
Elon Musk is wrong to open the door to porn on X
The name game
There’s a meeting of the world’s most important leaders, and Rishi has been invited along, too
Portraits in cowardice
Conservative MPs need to rediscover their spines if they want to be effective
Against beautiful losers
We must lose our attachment to the good-natured failure
The end of “Anglo-Saxon”?
The rebranding of Anglo-Saxon England is senseless and silly