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.
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
In the name of God, lead
The Prime Minister appears terrified of making a stand against racism in his own party
Irish politicians have lost touch with the people
The failed “modernisation” of the Constitution may not be a one-off failure for Irish liberals
The court of hot air
We do not need human rights law to protect human rights or to maintain the rule of law
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar
The public health fanatics have a new enemy in their sights
Why did Irish women vote No?
Tired of seeing women and mothers erased in law and policy, Ireland’s women sent a resounding message
The poverty of miners’ strike nostalgia
We should not romanticise a futile and sometimes thuggish struggle
The shadowy economics of fentanyl
One professor is investigating how the deadly drug trade works — and how it might be fought
The EU’s war on Hungary
As news breaks of secret EU plans to cripple the Hungarian economy, who can still believe it respects national sovereignty?
A matter of National concern
This year’s race will come close to destroying its magic
Banning masks from protests is a bad idea
Anonymity can be essential to dissent against tyrannical regimes
Playfulness and tedium
Stravinsky, Petrushka; Debussy, Jeux and Prelude (Decca)