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
Rocking the Reichstag
Women across the world have been protesting against the bizarre new German self-ID laws
There’s no good way to equal pay
You can’t beat the laws of supply and demand
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
The horror of 7 October on film
The killers’ headset footage, CCTV, interviews with survivors and heart-rending last messages
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
We are missing the important point on procurement
Systemic dysfunction is far more important than individual failures
Why shouldn’t we discriminate against people’s beliefs?
It is not the same as discriminating on the basis of race or sex
The empty road to serfdom
“Vision Zero” is a tyrannical anti-driving dream
Will judges protect free speech for Christians?
A new case will determine whether expressing normal Christian beliefs precludes employment