Janice Turner

She was married with children when she transitioned. But when Debbie Hayton began questioning the idea that people with gender dysphoria are born in the wrong body, she found herself under attack by the trans community

A leading philosopher argues that being overweight is not a problem. The real issue is society’s ‘moral panic’ over body size. Review by Janice Turner

Janice Turner: From the UN to Owen Jones, the equivocating over sexual violence against Israeli women is inexcusable and abhorrent

The last time I laid a political bet was in the early stages of the 2015 Labour leadership contest, when a columnist scoffed at Jeremy Corbyn’s candidacy

A friend forwards a photo of a blue plaque that popped up on public lavatories in Woodbridge. “Thérèse Coffey,” it reads. “Emptying your toilet into our rivers

It’s four years since his Italian chain went into liquidation. Has the chef any regrets? Quite a few — but they’re not stopping him opening a new place

Janice Turner: Instead of trying to rescue a drowning man in the Ouse, gawping bystanders hid behind their phones and filmed him

In the Marks & Spencer Christmas ad, the singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s blue and white eye shadow signifies Israel, while the Christmas cards she blowtorches alon

The Olympic athlete has been treated like a freak and a cheat. This is her side of the story

They were harvesting courgettes or collecting eggs when Hamas came, and were slaughtered beside tractors or hiding in chicken sheds. The brutal men who cut thei

Instagram has brainwashed me into vegetarianism, or rather what is now called being “plant-based”. It starts with those “reels” which bombard you when you’re en

With her first book, Nina Stibbe poked fun at the north London literary set. Now she’s back in town, and she’s one of them

Why is a ban on conversion therapy suddenly a hot political potato, with Rishi Sunak declaring one minute that the policy is “off the table” and the next

Little would persuade me to perform karaoke, so I wasn’t hugely looking forward to a friend’s “massaoke” birthday party. This, he explained, was karaoke without

Whatever online grief I’ve had in six years reporting on the medical transition of children, or rapists in women’s jails, I know that the slightest criticism of

Janice Turner: Sir Keir Starmer has built a party confident enough to leave its comfort zone and march into traditionally Tory territory

Janice Turner: PM’s plan to make Britain tobacco-free for tomorrow’s children is a case of Westminster catching up with social change

Now that shopkeepers must deal with their own shoplifters, according to the police minister, maybe the 77,000 cyclists who have a bike nicked every year will be

Should there be a minister for men? On GB News, Laurence Fox could have mustered facts on male suicide and mortality to counter the journalist Ava Evans’s view

They couldn’t be real, surely? Sitting on supersized nests atop telegraph poles in every village we drove through were storks. Mainly one or a pair, but now and