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
Trump’s first gambit fails
The Republican candidate was not as effective on the debate stage as he anticipated
We should have the freedom to criticise Islam
Religious freedom entails the right to criticise a belief system as well as to adhere to it
The dark horse of Durban
The work of Roy Campbell does not deserve to be ignored
The empty road to serfdom
“Vision Zero” is a tyrannical anti-driving dream
Pilot, playboy, player
This portrait of a gifted and not particularly pleasant man adds another feather to the author’s hat
Shattered illusions
The record of the authorities defies denials of two-tier policing
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
Toffs, trials and tradecraft
The best police procedurals unpeel the place where the drama unfolds
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art