Holly Baxter Stop saying Donald Trump is mentally ill
If you don't know what the Goldwater Rule in psychiatry is, then you need to find out – and abide by it
Holly Baxter is deputy editor of Independent Voices and co-founder and editor of vagendamagazine.com. She is co-author of The Vagenda: A Zero Tolerance Guide to the Media
If you don't know what the Goldwater Rule in psychiatry is, then you need to find out – and abide by it
Suggesting that you can work out whether a woman was raped by speaking to her ex-boyfriends is tantamount to saying that there are certain women who are ‘asking for it’ so much by their very character that they cannot be raped
You can’t have an isolationist policy on climate change, global terrorism, weapons deals, international cyber-crime, the Zika virus epidemic or the refugee crisis – and you can’t have an isolationist policy on birth
Everyone has Google, but not everyone has been given the tools to educate themselves. You might have missed the memo on the ins and outs of intersectionality if you didn’t have an expensive private education
It’s the ‘centrists’ who scaremonger about the ‘hard left’, but the truth is that the Corbynites are genuinely scared of the centrists – they’re scared of their power, their influence, and the idea that they might crush their democratically elected leader and bring back the status quo forever
Sidebars of shame are usually the Daily Mail’s thing, but it’s good to see that the Sunday Times is muscling in on some of that action – because shaming women is a big job concerning half of the entire world’s population, so one newspaper can hardly be expected to answer that calling alone
Isn’t it nice when a billionaire tax-avoiding business magnate with a knighthood takes on a cruel and calculating powerhouse like Labour’s autocratically-minded leader of the opposition and wins?
Whether we take teenagers crippled by PTSD and shrapnel wounds or eight-year-olds who could beat Andy Murray at singles should be immaterial. This is a humanitarian crisis, not a Britain’s Got Talent-style audition process
If Trump is doing nothing more than parroting popular opinions in the US, then it’s not controversial to think women don’t deserve bodily autonomy or that they should give up their jobs rather than tackle an ingrained culture of misogyny
May wants to stand up for the 'ordinary worker' and pull big business bonuses into line. I guess she forgot about the time she voted against creating jobs for young people using money from bankers' bonuses
Pistorius has slinked off to serve his slightly amended six-year sentence in a country where one man recently went down for 77 years for murder and “rhino horn theft”
Hot on the heels of 'Don't Be A Quitter' Dave and 'Stabbed In The Back' Boris, another politician leaves us to deal with the mess they created
Osborne keeps being wheeled out to repeat that they "fixed the roof while the sun was shining" - but the truth is that austerity politics crippled our country and caused the referendum result
We find make-up for fair complexions that will go the distance this summer
A sick act demands a sick mind, surely? That seems reasonable until you follow your own logic down a rabbit-hole of unintended prejudice
Holly Baxter was at university when she realised that the way she processed information – namely, by seeing words as colours – was unusual. Here she speaks to fellow synaesthetes and learns more about how the complex condition affects the brain in different ways for different people
I'm sick of hearing that white, wealthy, male Bernie Sanders is the 'radical' choice for America