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 Met is watching you
We are passively accepting the development of a society of hyper-surveillance
Has Israel walked into a forever war?
A brutal conflict seems unlikely to be winnable any time soon
Liz Truss was right but naive
She grasped the scale of Britain’s plight but misunderstood the nature of power
How the Greens blackened their name
The leadership of the Greens allowed gender fundamentalism to undermine the party
In praise of centibillionaires
When people are free to make a lot of money from new businesses, everybody wins
Therapy is making children ill
What would really help children’s mental health is talk about resilience
Our illiberal Terrorism Act
People should be censured for their actions and not for their beliefs
History will judge us on gender
How can the modern world tolerate such absurdity?
The erotic art book banned by a pope
A rich tale of great artists, pornography and the papacy has made I Modi one of the most fabled of all books
Reform the police, don’t deform the police
The Met Police’s Gangs Matrix might have been flawed but it served an important purpose