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
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
Playing by numbers
Attacking the Space:
Inside Rugby’s Tactical and Data
Revolution by Sam Larner
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
