“in his sixties, expected to be treated like a woman” “gay people and lesbians” “numerous people refused to fall into line” “I wans’t against D&I, but…” “the world went mad” “it wasn’t just the trans issue” “all that safe spaces shit” “the trans problem” “bullyong” “there was a sort of progressive madness going on” “against men who said they were women” “the trans orthodoxy”

And this beautiful final bit about how universities are not expected to think :

““It’s what you might expect of arts institutions or universities,” I said to Unsworth, “but we are journalists. Journalists are sceptical people. They don’t just lie down. They’re supposed to stand up there and think about it first.”