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 end of high quality homes
Michael Gove’s new leasehold reforms risk derailing the economic engine that helped finance some of Britain’s finest suburbs
Manifestos, multiculturalism and the British millet system
Competing communitarian manifestos provide a dark glimpse into Britain’s future
In defence of the right to addictions
Paternalists should stop masquerading as defenders of liberty
The poverty of “Singapore-on-Thames”
Britain can take inspiration from other countries but it cannot merely imitate them
Messing with the master’s work
Beethoven: Emperor Concerto; Brett Dean: A Winter’s Journey (Orchid)
Trumped up charges
Trump’s guilty verdict is a catastrophe for American public life
Women can have short hair, too
Pseudo-progressives are resurrecting gender stereotypes
A short guide to voting in the general election
From Gorgeous George to the Newark Chainsaw Massacre, the Critic brings you a selectively exhaustive guide to the parties running in 2024