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Podcast #246: How Gender Activists Took Over a Scottish Rape-Crisis Centre

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to writer Joan Smith about the scandals that unfolded at the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre under the leadership of its male trans-identified CEO, Mridul Wadhwa.

Jonathan Kay

9 Aug 2024 · 22 min read

Image of Mridul Wadhwa in a checked sari, sitting in a chair.

Gaslighting Scottish Rape Victims in the Name of ‘Trans Inclusion’

For three years, Edinburgh’s rape-crisis centre was run by a male CEO who lectured sex-assault victims and staff about their ‘prejudice’ against the male body. How was this allowed to happen?

Joan Smith

4 Aug 2024 · 17 min read

Health Secretary Humza Yousaf listens as First Minister Nicola Sturgeon presents her government's Programme for Government

Very Bad Government

From the beginning, the SNP leadership has skilfully papered over its failures and absurdities with soaring rhetoric of the better life to come once Scotland is “free.”

John Lloyd

3 May 2024 · 11 min read

A Party in Turmoil

Only more pragmatic leadership can renew the SNP and help repair Scotland.

John Lloyd

1 May 2023 · 9 min read

A Demagogue Departs

The SNP has identified England and the English political class—especially the governing Conservative Party—as hostile forces.

John Lloyd

18 Feb 2023 · 7 min read

Scotland’s Gender Meltdown

Nicola Sturgeon championed a policy of letting biological men into protected female spaces. Now she’s paying the price for her dangerous folly.

Joan Smith

6 Feb 2023 · 13 min read

The Opposite of Junk

A dozen journals left to us by my wife’s Scottish grandmother were destined for the recycling bin—until we took a look at what was inside.

Herman Goodden

2 Jul 2022 · 11 min read

Support for Scottish Independence Wanes as the SNP Is Engulfed in Scandal

Sturgeon and the Scottish nationalists have been far more successful at dragging the country into a culture war than improving the everyday life of ordinary Scots.

Kathrine Jebsen Moore

20 Mar 2021 · 7 min read