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. She tweets at @LucyHunterB
Turning the tide on gender
Reality is winning the gender wars — but this is no time to be complacent
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
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
The end of encrypted Europe
Europe’s latest Chat Control may see child protection become a pretext for wider surveillance.
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
Andy Burnham’s devolution delusions
Think central government is the only problem? Look around you
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
