Dr Heather Brunskell-Evans
October 2020
Dr Heather Brunskell-Evans is an academic, philosopher, social theorist and feminist activist. She specialises in analysing the politics of the body. Heather’s most recent book Transgender Body Politics is published by Spinifex Press later in 2020. Heather is a passionate advocate for women’s sex based rights and co-writer of the Women’s Declaration of Human Rights. Heather has co-edited two books on the subject of transgender children and young people together with Professor Michele Moore - Transgender Children and Young People: Born in Your Own Body and Inventing Transgender Children and Young People. In this podcast, Heather explains why she uses the phrase “the transgendering of children,” why this is an important feminist issue, as well as why she believes the figure of the transgender child has been socially constructed and how this topic may be related to political forces, misogyny and medicine.
Sheila Jeffreys
September 2020
Sheila Jeffreys (born 13 May 1948) is a former professor of political science at the University of Melbourne. An English expatriate and lesbian feminist scholar, she analyses the history and politics of human sexuality.
Marcus Evans
July 2020
Most recently Marcus' extensive work caught the eye of J K Rowling who has been amplifying it on twitter. Psychoanalyst, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist Member British Psychoanalytical Society and The Institute of Psychoanalysis. He trained and worked as a consultant psychotherapist at the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust and have over 35 years experience in mental health as a practitioner, supervisor, lecturer, and manager. He's had a private practice in Beckenham since 1995. He was one of the founding members of the Fitzjohn’s Service, for the treatment of patients with severe and enduring mental health conditions and/or personality disorder in the adult department at the Tavistock and I have a longstanding interest in the psychoanalytic understanding and treatment of mental health conditions. He has written and taught extensively on this subject and I am the author of ‘Making Room for Madness in Mental Health: the psychoanalytic understanding of psychotic communications’ published by Karnac in the Tavistock series.
William Clouston
July 2020
William joined the SDP in 1982 and campaigned in general elections, local elections and by-elections throughout the 1980’s. By 1989 he was on the SDP’s approved list of Parliamentary Candidates. William later spent four years in the Conservative party, becoming a District Councillor in 1999 and serving on Tynedale Council until 2003. A former Parliamentary Candidate, he presently serves on Corbridge Parish Council in Northumberland. William became leader of the Social Democrats in early 2018 and was re-elected in March 2020 obtaining 89% of votes returned by members. William holds first and Masters degrees in Urban Planning and Property Management respectively and read Philosophy at Durham University at Postgraduate level.
Dr Linda Blade
October 2020
Most recently Marcus' extensive work caught the eye of J K Rowling who has been amplifying it on twitter. Psychoanalyst, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist Member British Psychoanalytical Society and The Institute of Psychoanalysis. He trained and worked as a consultant psychotherapist at the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust and have over 35 years experience in mental health as a practitioner, supervisor, lecturer, and manager. He's had a private practice in Beckenham since 1995. He was one of the founding members of the Fitzjohn’s Service, for the treatment of patients with severe and enduring mental health conditions and/or personality disorder in the adult department at the Tavistock and I have a longstanding interest in the psychoanalytic understanding and treatment of mental health conditions. He has written and taught extensively on this subject and I am the author of ‘Making Room for Madness in Mental Health: the psychoanalytic understanding of psychotic communications’ published by Karnac in the Tavistock series.
Ro Edge
October 2020
Ro Edge is the founder of Save Women's Sports Australasia.
Save Womens Sport Australasia is part of an international coalition of women's organisations, athletes, and supporters of women in sport who assert that male athletes should not compete in female sports.
Abigail Shrier
July 2020
Abigail Shrier is a frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal. She holds an A.B. from Columbia College, where she received the Euretta J. Kellett Fellowship; a B.Phil. from the University of Oxford, and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
She is the author of the must read book "Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters" Unsuspecting parents are awakening to find their daughters in thrall to hip trans YouTube stars and “gender-affirming” educators and therapists who push life-changing interventions on young girls—including medically unnecessary double mastectomies and puberty blockers that can cause permanent infertility.
James Lindsay
July 2020
James Lindsay, toxic scholar @ConceptualJames An American-born author, mathematician, and political commentator, Dr. James Lindsay has written six books spanning a range of subjects including religion, the philosophy of science and postmodern theory. He is the co-founder of New Discourses.
Gad Saad
June 2020
Gad Saad, Ph.D. (Montreal, Canada), a popular blogger for Psychology Today, is a professor of marketing at the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University. He holds the Concordia University Research Chair in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences and Darwinian Consumption and is the author of The Evolutionary Bases of Consumption, plus numerous scientific papers. His latest book “The parasitic mind - How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense “ is out is October and, as we discuss, promises to provide solutions to the issues we see today
Jackie Doyle-Price
July 2020
Jackie Doyle-Price was elected as the Member of Parliament for Thurrock in May 2010. She has campaigned tirelessly for issues such as Mental Health; Suicide Prevention; Vulnerable groups, Women's and children's health, maternity care, Patient experience and so on. She has said the unsayable, in Parliament, about the threat to women's rights and children's bodies brought about by aggressive trans rights lobby groups.
Linda Bellos
May 2020
Linda Ann Bellos OBE (born 13 December 1950) is a British businesswoman, radical feminist and gay-rights activist. In 1981 she became the first black woman to join the Spare Rib collective. She was elected to Lambeth Borough Council in London in 1985 and was the leader of the council from 1986 to 1988.
Zuby
June 2020
Zuby is an independent rapper, podcast host, author, public speaker and creative entrepreneur, with over 300,000 followers online. He was born in England, raised in Saudi Arabia and is a graduate of Oxford University. He has sold over 25,000 albums independently, performed in 8 countries and achieved over 7 million online video views.
Zuby has featured on The Joe Rogan Experience, BBC, Fox News, Sky News, The Adam Carolla Show, The Rubin Report, The Candace Owens Show and The Ben Shapiro Show, amongst others.
Claire Fox
June 2020
Claire Fox is the director of the Academy of Ideas, which she established to create a public space where ideas can be contested without constraint. She convenes the yearly Battle of Ideas festival and initiated the Debating Matters Competition for sixth-formers. She also co-founded a residential summer school, The Academy, with the aim to demonstrate ‘university as it should be’.
In May 2019, she was elected as an MEP for the North West England constituency of the UK in the European Parliament elections. During her tenure (which ended on 31 January 2020), she took a temporary sabbatical as Battle of Ideas festival convenor, but remains on the editorial board.
Jo Bartosch
June 2020
Writer with bylines at The Critic, Standpoint Magazine, New Statesman, Unherd, Spectator, The Independent and more.
Fundraising bid writer and copywriter with experience across the third sector.
Campaigner against the sex industry, founder of anti-pornography think tank Click Off. Trustee at My Sister and Board Member of Not Buying It. Cambridge Union Speaker.
Stephanie Davies-Arai
May 2020
Stephanie Davies-Arai is a communication skills trainer with over 20 years’ experience working with parents and in schools. She is author of Communicating with Kids and has contributed chapters to three books on the subject of ‘transgender children’. She has spoken at events around the UK, including in the House of Commons and House of Lords. She founded the organisation Transgender Trend in 2015 and produced a schools guide Supporting gender diverse and trans-identified students in schools in 2018, for which she was shortlisted for the John Maddox Prize, a joint initiative of the charity Sense About Science and the science journal Nature, which “recognises the work of individuals who promote sound science and evidence on a matter of public interest, facing difficulty or hostility in doing so.”
Lierre Keith
June 2020
Lierre Keith is a writer, radical feminist, food activist, and environmentalist.
Her book The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability has been called “the most important ecological book of this generation.”
Her writing and lectures focus on civilization’s violence against the planet, male violence against women, and the need for serious resistance to both.
Meghan Murphy
April 2020
Meghan Emily Murphy is a Canadian writer, journalist, and founder of Feminist Current, a feminist website and podcast. Her writing, speeches, and talks have criticized third-wave feminism, male feminists, the sex industry, exploitation of women in mass media, censoring, and gender identity legislation.
Brendan O'Neill
April 2020
Brendan O'Neill is editor of Spiked and a writer for the Spectator. He also hosts the Brendan O'Neill Show podcast. Two collections of his essays have been published: A Duty to Offend and Anti Woke. The Telegraph describes him as "one of Britain's sharpest social commentators" while the Guardian says he's a "sub-Danny Dyer intellectual wind-up Merchant".
Graham Linehan
May 2020
Graham Linehan is an Irish comedian who, in collaboration with Arthur Mathews, has written or co-written a string of television comedies. He created or co-created the sitcoms Father Ted, Black Books and The IT Crowd. He has also written for Count Arthur Strong, Brass Eye and The Fast Show.
Dr Joanna Williams
May 2020
Joanna Williams is the director of the think tank Cieo. She is a regular columnist for Spiked and writes frequently for The Mail, The Telegraph and The Spectator. Joanna's writing focuses mainly on education, children, feminism and changing views of gender. Her books include Academic Freedom in an Age of Conformity and Women vs Feminism: Why we all need liberating from the gender wars.
Benjamin Boyce
April 2020
Benjamin Boyce is an Evergreen State College graduate who became one of the school’s most outspoken critics after the campus was taken over by radicals in 2017. Since then, Boyce has produced more than 90 videos talking about various Evergreen related topics.
Chris Elston
September 2020
Chris is an ordinary Dad who was so impressed by the J K Rowling billboard that Standing For Women put-up that he put one up in Vancouver, Canada!
This is a short interview
Sasha White
august 2020
A New York literary agency assistant has been fired following remarks she retweeted on her personal Twitter account about transgender people and domestic violence.
Sasha White revealed that she had been 'fired' by The Tobias Literary Agency, which has offices in New York, Boston and Nashville, after she retweeted a comment on social media that read: 'TW [trans women] being vulnerable to male violence does not make you women.'
This is a short interview.