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
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
The right-wing case for social media
X and other platforms can be vital sources of unfashionable information and dissenting opinions
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
How to travel in Europe
For the best in Europe, learn how to travel like a rich native
