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Dr Hilary Cass has achieved what many thought was impossible. She has brought about something close to consensus on one of the most toxic and divided issues of our time: […]

Three and a half years after it began, we finally have the findings of Dr Hilary Cass's review into NHS youth gender identity services. Published on 10 April, they are [...]

When my husband and I left for hospital on a winter afternoon, we had no idea what would happen. The next few hours would change my life. For good and [...]

'The situation is worse than I thought it was,' Keir Starmer said of the state of English and Welsh prisons soon after becoming Prime Minister. 'I'm pretty shocked that it's [...]

Every day for the past few weeks, Yvonne Tracey has been walking the streets of New Malden in southwest London. It's a place she knows well, having lived in just [...]

The world is facing a major population crisis: not too many people, but too few, or so the argument goes. With more than eight billion humans on the planet, it [...]

Sexed: A History of British Feminism Susanna Rustin Polity Press, 286pp, 20 [pounds sterling] A century ago British feminists worked together despite their political differences. Can they do so again? [...]

The Monday morning media round on 3 June was uncharacteristically messy for the Women and Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch. With her assertiveness and grasp of detail, she is seen by [...]

Reem Alsalem isn't frightened of controversy. Central to fulfilling her brief as the UN's special rapporteur on violence against women and girls is her insistence that sex and gender must [...]

I fear for my daughters. All parents worry about their children from time to time. I remember when I first became a mum, I would occasionally be hit by waves [...]

I've felt uncharacteristically optimistic since the election. Thursday 4 July marked an extraordinary moment in British political history: a Labour landslide; the Conservatives' worst electoral defeat in history; the Liberal [...]

Britain may be broken, as Nigel Farage's campaign declares. But what it absolutely does not need is Reform. Farage's company-cumpolitical party is not the answer to any of the UK's [...]

Labour has a problem with women. There had been some positive signs of late. The shadow justice secretary, Shabana Mahmood, clearly stated last month: 'I believe in the importance of [...]

No one is under any illusions about the scale of the task a new Labour government will face. As this issue of the New Statesman contends, the party will need [...]

When an online forum for new parents was founded in March 2000, few could have imagined the influence it would come to have. Yet the Mumsnet co-founders, Justine Roberts and [...]

It is difficult to imagine that the NHS could have been complicit in conducting secret medical trials on children, condemning them, in some cases, to their deaths. That the service [...]

There comes a time in everyone's life when they must face up to a difficult fact: they have become middle-aged. My recognition of this came in the early hours of [...]

Every time I see the words 'British Jews' trending on social media, I know expressions of flagrant anti-Semitism will follow. And so they were once more, in response to allegations [...]

Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up Abigail Shrier Swift Press, 288pp. 20 [pounds sterling] More than a million children in England were referred to NHS mental health specialists [...]

What better way for a government to illustrate its unflinching commitment to transparency than releasing 922 pages of material, highly critical of one of its core policy areas, at 4pm [...]

It is a bad time to be a British Jew. Many are, rightfully, frightened. They are hiding visible signs of their faith: boys and men removing kippot from their heads; [...]

Where I live, in south-west London, the state schools that achieve the best results are all Church of England. Many of our friends have no religion, or are what I [...]

I have never believed that it is the role of journalists to tell people what to think. We are not the arbiters of truth. Our job is to help make [...]

Our culture demands certainty, and our political discourse is intensely polarised. We all face pressure to take sides. To say something is right or wrong. Or to provide definitive answers [...]

It has been an okay year this year. I wouldn't say I am thrilled with how it has gone, but I have had some good races. Omloop Het Nieuwsblad was [...]