
Susanna Rustin
Writer at The Guardian
Social affairs leader writer for the Guardian. Author of Sexed: A History of British Feminism. Views on here are mine
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Susanna Rustin
So, after all that, it turns out that under the Equality Act, a woman is an adult human female. A man is an adult human male. The unanimous UK supreme court ruling delivered on Wednesday is a big step towards clearing up the almighty mess created by politicians in Scotland, who got so carried away with promoting transgender rights that they decided transgender women ought to be eligible for seats on public boards on preferential terms that are for women.
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1 month ago |
susannarustin.substack.com | Susanna Rustin
I admired Julie’s earlier book The Pimping of Prostitution very much, and was lucky to be able to edit an extract which ran in the Guardian. But I’m heterosexual and didn’t expect to find so much interest in a book about lesbians. But I did! And I had a few things I wanted to write down after I finished it so here they are…I interviewed Julie and also Harriet Wistrich in their house when I was researching my own book Sexed: A History of British Feminism (2024).
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2 months ago |
theguardian.com | Susanna Rustin
What’s in a name? With T-levels, quite a lot. By choosing a title that sounded a lot like A-levels – with T for technical – the reformers behind England’s latest post-16 qualification sent a message that the days of vocational education’s second-class status were over. The two-year courses, launched in 2020 (and not adopted in the rest of the UK), were supposed to boost applied learning and the prospects of the more than 50% of young people who don’t study for A-levels followed by a degree.
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Jan 13, 2025 |
theguardian.com | Susanna Rustin
Two seemingly contradictory things are true. It was appalling for the UK’s domestic policy agenda to be hijacked last week by Elon Musk’s blaze of interest in child sexual exploitation gangs. And government action in response to the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse was long overdue.
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Sep 19, 2024 |
islingtontribune.co.uk | Maggie Gruner |Susanna Rustin
Susanna Rustin [Ludo Hunter-Tilney]METAL gags and tubes were used to force-feed suffragettes on hunger strike in Holloway Prison, and many were left with lasting injuries. Jailed campaigners for votes for women began going on hunger strike in 1909 in protest against their treatment as criminals rather than political prisoners.
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