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
Most Read
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The strange birth of woo-woo
The glitzy LA supermarket chain and the Buddhist food cult behind your wellness smoothie
The revolt against the public
The establishment cannot accept ordinary citizens having power
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
Critical briefing: Unite the Kingdom
What you need to know about the Unite the Kingdom march on May 16
The dark side of the White House
As in ancient Rome, power politics are always a promising arena for drama
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
The costs of telling the truth too late
The girl guiding decision is causing pain — so why do activists seek to prolong it?
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
Making the case for liberalism
Wooldridge’s polemic draws together the disparate traditions of liberal thought and action
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
