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 far enemy
The motivations for the 9/11 attacks are still misunderstood and moralised
Ministry of Silly Thoughts
Wes Streeting made the grave error of consulting the British people
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
Homes for heroes
MPs are committed public servants who need accomodation in London to do their job
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
Imagine there’s no Gove
Who’s in the room matters, and there were some which would have been better off without Michael Gove
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life