Opinion

Caster Semenya is a woman. She’s not transgender. She hasn’t wilfully altered her hormone levels. She’s just a woman who has elevated levels of testosterone. This biological quirk helps her to be world class athlete. And now she’s being punished for it. The IAAF’S ruling will force Semenya to artificially lower her testosterone levels or stop competing. This is a regressive disgrace that should be immediately reversed. Semenya deserves an unreserved apology for the vile idea that she should change...

There is a paragraph in the BBC’s impartiality code that has, to coin a phrase, become a part that is more than the sum of its whole. It reads: “We are committed to reflecting a wide range of opinion across our output as a whole and over an appropriate timeframe so that no significant strand of thought is knowingly unreflected or under-represented.” And in doing so it has allowed bias in by the back door. Reflecting all significant strands of...

Children must finally have the confidence that if they report abuse their disclosure will not be ignored.

Donald Trump has reached his late-Nixon phase: he’s paranoid, unpredictable and a threat to American democracy. The Mueller Report showed a litany of unethical actions, attempts to obstruct justice and old fashioned executive incompetence. Impeachment is probably off the table, but Trump’s numbers are under water in key swing states and key voter demographics. Smart Republicans should follow Bill Weld’s example and try to push Trump out of office before the next election. But the Republican Party is now so...

“Deeply troubling” ONS stats were revealed today that once again confirmed the more police officers you cut the more crime you will see on our streets. Police recorded 732 homicides in England and Wales last year, the highest total in a decade, according to official new figures. It comes as the number of offences involving knives or sharp instruments increased by 6 per cent in 2018 compared to the previous 12 months. Louise Haigh MP called the new figures “chilling”...

If the last General Election taught us anything it is that the mainstream media has become banded together around issues that no longer represent the majority of the nation. Few, if any, gave Jeremy Corbyn’s manifesto pledges, geared towards ironing out inequalities in society, any air time at all. For the most part the Labour leader had been written off all together, which provided fledgling publications such as ourselves with a proverbial feasting ground of disenfranchised readers. Our USP was...

When toxins are released into the environment by any other industry, or cancerogenic, endocrine disrupting fumes detected in public buildings, trained professionals in hazmat suits instantly crawl all over the hastily closed-off sites in question, testing the air taking samples with specialised equipment. Not so in aviation. Toxic gas-type fume emissions occur daily in aircraft. This kind of scenario is happening regularly worldwide and is the aviation industry’s sore spot. Escaping engine oil fumes can cause pilots and cabin crews...

Chris Hobbs is a retired Met police officer who worked extensively at border controls in both the UK and Jamaica. If control of our borders and a curb on immigration into the UK was the tipping point in deciding the result of referendum, those who cast their vote on that basis may well be surprised at the likely post-Brexit reality whether there is a deal or not. - This, in spite of government statements supposedly ending freedom of movement. On...

Remain faces a potentially catastrophic problem in the lead up to the European Elections. Despite having momentum on its side the vote is split four ways, between the Liberal Democrats, Change UK, the SNP and the Greens, and if Labour take a pro-People’s Vote stance then you can add another riven to an already fragmented divide. As things stand Remain could swamp the election without getting anything in return. Indeed, as Ian Dunt noted, outside of the SNP “these parties...