Archive - Academy of Ideas

Trans on Trial: the tragi-comedy of gender ideology

Ann McElhinney, the producer of a new filmed drama based on the landmark case Mermaids vs The LGB Alliance, on why supporters of transitioning children…

May 2 •

April 2025

Grooming gangs, gender laws and government overreach

Parliament's back and it's already a mess - Claire Fox reports from a week inside the Lords.

Apr 26 •

Six questions about the British Steel rescue

Parliament may have rushed to pass a law to see off the threat to the steelworks, but without a serious plan, this won’t be the last we hear about it.

Apr 17 •

Three cheers for For Women Scotland

Biological reality is back! After today’s fantastic victory for women's rights in the UK Supreme Court, the onus is on us to make it more than just a…

Apr 16 •

Bearing WITNESS to antisemitism

The curators of a recent exhibition in London, Mina Kupfermann and Manick Govinda, explain why we cannot allow October 7th to be forgotten - and call…

Apr 14 •

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Mina Kupfermann

Tariff wars: is there method in Trump’s madness?

Ahead of a special discussion in May for AoI associate and paid subscribers, Rob Lyons looks at the logic and impact of the White House’s new trade war.

Apr 9 •

Debating Matters: from Key West to the North West (via Westminster)

Mo Lovatt rounds up a busy period of schools debating across England and looks forward to debates in Berlin and Beyond Bars.

Apr 8 •

Inside the Lords: mental health, bad tempers and trade-union bureaucrats

Claire Fox reports from the last week inside the Lords before Easter.

Apr 6 •

March 2025

The limits of multicultural citizenship

In our weekend essay exploring some of the themes of The Academy 2025, Jacob Reynolds argues that a turn to ethnicity is no solution to the problem of…

Mar 30 •

The Home Office should stay out of our private conversations

The UK government is demanding a 'backdoor' to encrypted online communications, undermining our privacy and civil liberties. Apple is right to refuse…

Mar 24 •

How the NHS’s failure to reliably record sex puts patients at risk

A new report highlights how dangerous the NHS's gender confusion has become.

Mar 20 •

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Victoria Keilthy

You can’t talk about that! Well-being and the dangers of self-censorship in universities

In a guest post, social-work professors Jane Fenton and Mark Smith discuss their research on how students and lecturers bite their tongues for fear of…

Mar 18 •

Alastair Donald

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