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
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to be a populist in the art world
A recent conference on populism exposed the extent to which the art world talks around actually existing people
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
Dear Prudence
A reflection on the Tory Party’s historic suspicion of interventionism
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
DeepMind delusion
The superstar Demis Hassabis is on a mission to create a God-like superintelligence
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
