Matilda Gosling
Matilda Gosling is a social researcher and writer specialising in research on issues affecting children and young people. She has worked for governments, charities, foundations and private sector organisations internationally, and has overseen field research in more than 60 countries. She is in the process of writing two evidence-based parenting books. She tweets @matildagosling.
The problem with EDI
Equality, diversity and inclusion policies are constraining free thought and dividing people
Survivors of male violence need single-sex spaces
Single-sex spaces and services are essential to the dignity and safety of female victims of male violence
Unbaking the genderbread person
As many schools find themselves at the frontline of gender identity belief systems, what do parents need to know?
Children and gender distress
Modish answers may not be the best
Most Read
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
From triple lock to price caps
Opinium polling for The Critic reveals the totemic pension policy has entrenched a politics that demands control over growth
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
Questions for the Munich hawks
It is wrong to use Neville Chamberlain as a byword for cowardice and fecklessness
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
