Michael Biggs
Michael Biggs is associate professor in the Department of Sociology and St Cross College at the University of Oxford. He researches social movements and collective protest, including most recently the transgender movement. He is a director of Sex Matters.
Institutional cover
Why are Health Talk and Oxford University promoting GenderGP?
“Watch me take a knife to your throat”
The erosion of academic freedom at LSE has culminated in threats of physical violence
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
Lily Phillips and the importance of feeling
We must remain sensitive to unspoken pain
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
Is Keir Starmer coming for Twitter?
A campaign group with close ties to Labour Party reportedly hopes to “kill Musk’s Twitter”
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
The price of victory
Benjamin Netanyahu has won battles, but there is no foreseeable end to the war
Their work here is done
British politicians are very proud of their role in Syria, whatever it was
Too many silences in this book about music
The hazy treatment of what “music” even entails falls flat
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
The definitive Brexit book—for now
Shipman captures the compelling drama of Britain’s greatest peacetime political crisis since the People’s Budget