Social Affairs Correspondent, The Times

London
Joined January 2018
My story today in The Times: A judge has granted a male couple legal parentage of a baby born through an unlawful Chinese surrogacy arrangement in which they would receive a refund if the baby was a girl. xitter.cf/thetimes/status/210735…
The unlawful contract between the pair and a woman in rural China specified genetic testing for sex selection and a refund if the baby was a girl thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/a…
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Films written and directed by women make more profit on average than male-led productions but men still get the biggest budgets, a study has found. thetimes.com/culture/film/ar…
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My story in The Times today - interesting findings from a UCL-led study. Single women who undergo IVF have more favourable birth outcomes than single mothers who conceive naturally and women in couples who have IVF. thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/a…
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Selling children to survive: Afghan fathers forced to make impossible choices bbc.in/49UQzLU
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
BBC frames Afghan fathers selling daughters as sympathetic. All profiled cases involve girls (e.g. 5-year-old). Selling daughters for marriage is an issue in Afghanistan because of the Taliban regime’s return. BBC focuses on fathers' distress over rape of the girls. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…
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My interview with the amazing Roxy and Judy from The Traitors in The Times today: thetimes.com/life-style/pare…
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Exclusive update on the High Court action over admission of trans women to Hampstead Ponds in @thetimes thetimes.com/uk/law/article/…
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My exclusive interview for @thetimes with veteran journalist who says she was ‘forced out of BBC News over gender-critical views’. Cath Leng claims younger LGBT reporters acted as ‘gatekeepers’ on trans stories and gender-critical coverage was censored thetimes.com/uk/media/articl…
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I introduced accused killer Kenneth Law to lethal poison, says ‘Dr Death’. By @SanMan1978 thetimes.com/article/a03369f…
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🔺 EXCLUSIVE: The Father Ted writer Graham Linehan, arrested at Heathrow and facing a separate trial, said police were in thrall to trans activists and his free speech was under threat

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Over 80s applying to be legal parents of babies born via surrogacy thetimes.com/life-style/pare…
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My short speech during the Battle of Ideas Festival in October last year. It took 8 months to release publicly. I can only imagine why...
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