In the 70s and 80s gay rights were routinely conflated with paedophilia and child-indoctrination by their opposition, amplifying and generalising massively niche cases to be presented as a the both t… (View Post)

I agree that there fundamental selection issues with online polling. I work with a market research agency who also conduct political polling and chatted about this casually - the response was profess… (View Post)

Andrew Tate has a frightening level of influence among boys in schools. I'm naturally sceptical of things that smell a bit like moral panic, but his ideas have gained genuine currency among a de… (View Post)

The report into institutional misogyny (and racism) in the London Fire Service is shocking. (View Post)

The thing that really struck me when I first moved to London years ago - I lived there for most of the 2000s - wasn't so much the tube, but how good the bus infrastructure was. So many of them, … (View Post)