News

31.10.26

I take part in a discussion with author Momus Najmi and SDP chair Stephen Balogh at Social Democratic Party Annual Conference in Scarborough.

20.10.26

I write ‘Different Bodies, Different Brains’ for Genspect on the parallels between gender ideology and neurodiversity.

17.10.26

I speak at Battle of Ideas Festival in Westminster on From ADHD to autism: negotiating the special-needs crisis and chair Exploring autonomy and identity: what is disability anyway?

30.9.26

Scottish Union for Education publish my article ‘Are they making it up?’ in their Newsletter. This is based on the introduction I gave to the FCP Readers’ Group.

27.9.26

Spiked publishes an extract from the book.

12.9.26

I introduce a discussion at Birmingham Salon on my book.

2.9.26

I introduce a discussion about my book at the Future Cities Project Readers’ Group.

26.8.26

Are ‘the Right’ Right about our Plight? republished on New Culture Forum Locals.

20.8.26

Really enjoyed talking to Asher Gould on Talk TV (starts appro. 30 mins in).

6.8.26

‘The explosion in kids with special educational needs is destroying our schools’ - Neil Davenport reviews my book for spiked.

29.7.26

I talk to Lucy Johnston for the Care Visions Talks podcast.

24.7.26

‘We can’t go on like this!’ Britain is ‘medicalising childhood’ as ADHD prescriptions soar - I’m interviewed for a GB News article.

21.7.26

‘We’re medicalising childhood’ - ‘labels’ the new ‘currency’ of schools - I feature in an article on the Express website.

19.7.26

Labelling kids with ADHD ‘is symp­tom of ail­ing sys­tem’, coverage of my book in the Sunday Express.

1.7.26

I talk about the new book in the latest edition of Teach Secondary (also online at teachwire)

16.6.26

Good chat with Deke Hardman on BBC Radio Leicester, Stoke, Nottingham, Derby, Coventry and Warwickshire, Shropshire, Hereford and Worcester & BBC Radio WM.

1.6.26

I spoke to Giles Brown at Talk Radio Europe about the book

30.5.26

Interviewed on GB News breakfast show by Anne Diamond

26.5.26

Interviewed in the morning on Sky News

22.5.26

‘The plan to make every school a special school’ by Jane Wills, a review of my book originally published in the Autism Tribune, republished in The Conservative Woman.

19.5.26

Interviewed by Hugo Rifkind on Times Radio

Interviewed by Claira Hermet on BBC Radio London

18.5.26

Baroness Spielman, former Ofsted chief inspector, reviews my book in parliament’s The House magazine.

28.4.26

Academy of Ideas
The special-needs crisis in the classroom
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Launch of The Crisis in the Classroom: How the needs explosion is destroying education in Westminster with Baroness Claire Fox of Buckley