Melanie Smallman Articles

Britain has lost its place as a world leader on climate change, writes Melanie Smallman This summer saw horrific floods in Texas and Bangladesh and one of the most powerful storms in history roaring across the Atlantic coast of the United States. While Donald Trump...

As the world’s rich and powerful meet in Davos for the World Economic Forum this week, Oxfam have re-released the shock statistics that richest 62 people own the same wealth as half of the world. For a Labour party that long ago focused on equality of opportunity,...

At last year’s Labour conference, Ed Miliband and Caroline Flint’s announcement to freeze energy bills made the political weather. But a price freeze alone cannot fix the energy problems looming ahead, so what is Labour’s offer beyond the energy freeze? This was the...

Last week, the Times Education Supplement ran a story with the headline ‘Gender equality in science would “deny human nature”'. Reporting on a recent education conference, the article cited Gijsbert Stoet, a (male) psychologist at the University of Glasgow who has...