Taking part in Politics Live
Can the police be trusted any more? Is the government right to block Scotland’s transgender reforms?
I took part today in BBC TV’s Politics Live programme. My fellow guests were the Conservative MP Mark Garnier, the Labour MP Sarah Jones and the New Statesman journalist Harry Lambert. We first discussed the crisis in British policing, with the revelation of the latest in a string of appalling sexual and other crimes by serving officers as a Metropolitan policeman was finally sacked yesterday after having admitted in court last month raping 12 women. We then discussed the British government’s decision to block the new gender recognition law passed by the Scottish parliament, which would enable individuals in Scotland to identify as transgender without medical authorisation. We also discussed the proposed teachers’ strikes, and finally the government’s decision to appoint a “free speech czar” to counter the silencing on campus of unfashionable views (about which I wrote in today’s Times (£) of London).
If you can access BBC iPlayer, you can watch the show here for the next 29 days.
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