Melanie Newman
Melanie Newman is a freelance journalist who trained as a lawyer. She writes on legal, health and other issues for a range of publications. She tweets at @Melanie_Newman
The parent trap
Are social workers targeting mothers who serve frozen meals?
The trans rights that trump all
Julie Bindel and Melanie Newman say women’s rights were not considered in legislation that allows trans people to effectively decide their own gender
Confessions of a left-wing Pope
Life: My Story Through History by Pope Francis with Fabio Marchese Ragona
Anti-industrial strategy
Manufacturing has been systematically devastated by successive governments
The BBC can be a drag
The priorities of its reporting, especially on gender issues, can be absurd
The crisis at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre
Serious as it is, it is no anomaly
Do the arts need policy?
Decoupling creativity from policy might give art ambition again
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
Playing the long game
Rishi Sunak misjudged the electorate by prioritising tax cuts over the country’s future