The Thatcher-Burnham Debate In some parallel Universe to our own, Margaret Thatcher and Andy Burnham meet to debate. The Multiverse holds its breath... (NB: This is fictional. And somewhat funny).
A Transgender Manifesto Just about everyone will argue with one or more points in this document. Don't worry: they are just MY ideas.
Why People are Transgender When transgender people are accepted, supported, and allowed to live as themselves, the evidence shows that they thrive.
The BIG Problem: Version 2 What Are We Fighting? The Anti-Trans Moral Panic in Historical Context From Witch Trials to Sex Wars — Panic, Danger, and the Women at the Margins Bea Groves-McDaniel | July 2026 What Are We Fighting? There is a moment — and if you are a trans person of any vintage, you will know
The Origins of Hate Social media did not accidentally create a landscape of hate. It was designed to exploit pre-existing human capacities for tribalism, suspicion, and cruelty, and it did so in the service of an economic model that required maximum engagement regardless of the quality of engagement.
The BIG Problem Comments and insights: Contemporary Attitudes to Trans People in the United Kingdom, 2026
Satires 3: Let's have a good ol' PANIC! Every few years, the British public convinces itself that something is going to destroy society.
Satires 2: WTF is wrong with Orange Don? Trump was not a Republican in any ideological sense. He was a vessel for rage, and the Republican Party discovered, somewhat to its own surprise, that rage was willing to follow wherever Trump pointed it.
Satires 1: What's wrong with TERFs? So, oh dear reader... tell me, what's wrong with Gender Criticals (aka TERFs)?
Life and Uncertainty This is the human condition in concentrated form: the struggle to articulate and live a truth about oneself that the surrounding world denies, and the discovery that the very categories one needs to do so are themselves contested, unstable, and socially constituted
The No-Threat Principle In the summer of 2026, trans people in Britain find themselves at the centre of a political and moral storm that shows no sign of abating.
Counterstrike The trans woman who tells you she is a woman is not denying reality. She is describing it, as she lives it, from the inside. The person who insists she cannot be a woman because of her chromosomes is not describing reality. They are describing a theory of reality.
The Architecture of Horror The position of this paper is clear. The state of Israel, as constituted on the territory of Palestine, is the product of a colonial project that displaced an indigenous people.
The Dictatorship There is a moment in any democracy when the arithmetic becomes a kind of tyranny. When the votes are counted and the majority declared, the losers discover that the system has no conscience — only a calculator.
How the Rot began Technocracy is, in the end, a *political* project. It is the project of those who hold economic and institutional power and wish to conduct the business of governance without the inconvenience of democratic accountability.
On Friendship The women who've shared my life — the ones who've seen me at my best and my worst — they know something the keyboard warriors don't. They know that I am not a symbol. Not a battleground. Not a question mark over anyone's rights or safety
Why Facts Don't Change Minds The question matters enormously if you believe, as this writer does, that public reason and evidence-based policy are worth caring about.
The Bigot's Argument Logic without true premises is a clock that runs on the wrong time. It is valid all the way to the wrong answer.
On being Angry Frantz Fanon wrote, in 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘩, that the colonised do not only resist the coloniser externally; they carry the coloniser 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲. The oppressed absorb the frameworks of their oppression.
Free Will as Phenomenological Experience The core thesis is this: free will is not a substance or faculty that we possess, but a phenomenological experience that we undergo.
Critical Analysis of the EHRC's Code As the legal analyst Ian Dunt observed, the Code 'is a labyrinth of nonsense, an unworkable, illogical, irrational, hopelessly befuddled mess of competing urges, moral panic and institutionalised anxiety.'
