After a decade-long downward trend, domestic abuse figures could spike next year following the introduction in 2015 of a new offence, ‘coercive and controlling...
Simon Langton Boys’ Grammar School in Canterbury has reportedly sparked outrage on the internet by creating a deliberately ‘unsafe space’ for pupils to argue...
Children’s Commissioner Anne Longfield warns that understaffed and fragmented services mean that even suicidal minors are being turned away; a recent report showed that...
As the Queen and Prince Philip celebrate their platinum wedding anniversary, Rosa Silverman asks whether a modern marriage could last 70 years.
As she points...
Academics have warned the Joint Human Rights Committee that universities and student unions are banning ‘offensive’ speech, citing sexual discrimination, homophobia or transphobia. They...
A new national recruitment campaign from ‘Girlguiding’ will focus on empowering women and girls and use the hashtag #KnowYourPlace, in order to ‘turn the...
Lucy Elphinstone, headmistress of the leading private girls’ school Francis Holland School in London, says that ‘sensitive’ girls should be taught ‘banter’ at school...
The clothing retail chain Topshop has announced it now has gender-neutral changing rooms ‘following growing pressure from customers’ – mainly performance artist Travis Alabanza,...
The President of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, Dr Richard Paulson, says that society should prepare itself for the arrival of the first...
The focus on sexual pestering in showbusiness, beginning with the Harvey Weinstein scandal, has shifted to the world of Westminster. Heads are already beginning...
On the centenary of the Russian revolution, Daniel Hannan remarks that in ‘the crude mathematics of murder’, communism must be the most lethal ideology...
A total of 113 MPs from five political parties have demanded that Home Secretary Amber Rudd introduce ‘buffer zones’ outside abortion clinics to stop...