Shonagh Dillon
Dr Shonagh Dillon has nearly 3 decades of experience working in the MVAW (Male Violence Against Women) sector, she is the founder and CEO at Aurora New Dawn working with victims and survivors of domestic abuse, sexual violence and stalking. She tweets at @ShonaghDillon
Women’s refuges should be exactly that
Biological males do not have a right to them
In praise of women’s football
Don’t let the FA score an own goal by letting transwomen into women’s sports
We need to talk about Sex Education
Relationship and Sex Education classes for children are being taken over by outside providers with their own agenda
Women’s lives are not up for debate
Single sex spaces can be a matter of life or death for female victims
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President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
International Women’s Day is useless for women
IWD has become a celebration of evasion and irrationality
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
The case for compromise with Cuba
The strategic case for negotiating with Havana
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
The dead-end art of conspiracy
Should art dissect conspiracy theories or immerse itself in them?
A show to make you afraid of the dark
Opera is the repository of everything crass and depraved in what is laughingly called European “civilisation”
Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
Not exiles, but stayers
White South Africans are not abandoning their home
