Ada Akpala

I found out that Jason Arday had died on my way to do a show on GB News last Friday, and I will be very honest with you, it shook me. Genuinely. Whatever ultimately proves true about the allegations surrounding his academic work and his personal claims, a man is dead, and I do not think he was an evil man. So the news made me a bit, not really sad, just shocked, and thinking of his kids too. So that is that. But I will also say this.

Share Topics Feminism Identity Politics UK Want unlimited, ad-free access? Become a spiked supporter. Shopping in Waitrose is about to become far more confusing for half of the British population. Last week, we learnt that the supermarket chain has decided to remove the phrase ‘feminine care’ from its labelling of sanitary products used by women. This is because, according to a leaked internal document, ‘not all people who have periods are women’.

Senior Labour figures and allied NGOs have Musk’s free-speech platform in their sights. Share Topics Free Speech Politics UK Want unlimited, ad-free access? Become a spiked supporter. Lisa Nandy announced last week that she is leaving X. That’s right, the UK culture secretary is leaving one of the biggest communications spaces there is – one that directly and indirectly shapes the culture she is meant to be engaged with.