Julie Bindel

Is it odd to choose one’s life partner based on an equation predicting the chances of you both having a content and equitable life together? Well, that’s what economist Corinne Low did. Last week, she told the Sunday Times that after divorcing her husband in her late thirties and wanting another child, she followed the [...]Read More...

It should have been no surprise that John Boyne was longlisted earlier this month for one of this year’s Polari prizes, awards celebrating LGBTQ+ literature, for his beautiful novella Earth. One of the most accomplished living novelists from the British Isles, he is best known for 2006’s The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. However, he [...]Read More...

Did Pride protect a predator? Whistleblowers were ignored for years

It’s long been known that the victims of the so-called grooming gang scandal were abused and degraded not only by the perpetrators, but also by many professionals. This included social workers, health professionals, and those in the criminal justice system. But fresh revelations that come as no surprise to some of us (myself included) will [...]Read More...

Meet Ireland’s gender rebels A new generation is resisting trans orthodoxy

The Charedi have a woman problem Yehudis Fletcher is fighting from within

I met Andrew Norfolk, who has died at the age of 60, shortly after his first major investigation on grooming gangs was published in the Times in January 2011. We were both guests on a television debate discussing whether it was racist to point out that the majority of perpetrators in these particular gangs — [...]Read More...

What I learned at Terf School Some 'feminists' prefer abuse to analysis

PinkNews, the LGBT news website which prides itself on being the best “queer” outlet in the world, is in trouble. Today, the BBC published an investigation into owner Benjamin Cohen and his husband Anthony James, focusing on allegations that the pair are guilty of multiple cases of sexual misconduct towards male staff members. A culture [...]Read More...

Westminster Yesterday, I made my way to court to witness a case that will hopefully establish in law an important question: what is a woman? If we lose the case, we lose our rights as women, in law and in policy. The work of decades could be undone all too quickly. The case began in 2018, [...]Read More...