Kathryn Samson

1 month ago | channel4.com | Kathryn Samson

The Prime Minister has U-turned on his previous position on whether trans women are women. He was commenting for the first time since the Supreme Court ruled last week that the term ‘woman’ referred to biological sex. In 2022 before entering Number 10, Sir Keir said “a woman is a female adult, and in addition to that trans women are women.”His new comments came as Equalities Minister Bridget Phillipson said the ruling means transgender women should use male toilets.

2 months ago | channel4.com | Kathryn Samson

Today the UK Supreme court gave a definitive answer: someone born a man cannot in the eyes of the law be a woman. When the judgement was read out, there were whoops of joy and hugs among the feminist campaigners, some who spent more than a decade battling to defend what the word woman meant.

2 months ago | channel4.com | Kathryn Samson

Two weeks of escalation, bravado, noise, and then climbdowns and u-turns. Having started a global trade war, it was the US president who blinked first. So we find ourselves now with a global 10% tariff on goods imported to America. And then one massive exception: China. Over this weekend more confusion. It emerged that laptops and other electronics wouldn’t be hit by tariffs. But today the US commerce secretary has announced those goods will face their own tariff regime.

2 months ago | channel4.com | Kathryn Samson

In a rare move Parliament was recalled to pass emergency legislation and keep the two blast furnaces at Scunthorpe alight. That’s after talks between the UK government and the Chinese company Jingye, which owns British Steel, collapsed. The Steel Industry Special Measures Bill gives the government effective control over the company, though some believe it’s an opportunity to renationalise the steel industry in the UK.

2 months ago | channel4.com | Kathryn Samson

After fighting for justice for eight years, the families of two young people who took their own lives inside Scotland’s largest young offenders institution, have finally met the head of the Scottish Prison Service. She agreed that rules which prevent state prisons from being prosecuted for safety failures need to change. An inquiry into the deaths of William Lindsay and Katie Allen in Polmont in 2018, found a catalogue of failures in the system and said their deaths could have been avoided.