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Susanna Rustin

Susanna Rustin is a Guardian leader writer

September 2024

  • Students celebrate their BTec and T-level results at Barking & Dagenham College, east London, on 15 August.

    The threat to BTec courses in England is the educational scandal no one’s talking about

    Susanna Rustin
  • Tributes adorn a green, heart-shaped London Underground-style roundel that reads 'Grenfell'

    Politics Weekly UK
    The final Grenfell inquiry report and what it means for families – Politics Weekly UK

July 2024

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Women take over the head of the TUC march against Corrie's Anti- abortion Bill, London, November 1979
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abortion protests

    Dramatic deeds are remembered, but too many feminists of the past are forgotten

    Susanna Rustin
  • Eleanor Rathbone, the independent candidate for East Toxteth, Liverpool.

    ‘100% feminist’: how Eleanor Rathbone invented child benefit – and changed women’s lives for ever

June 2024

  • Josephine Butler, sitting at a table writing

    Josephine Butler: the forgotten feminist who fought the UK police – and their genital inspections

    Half a century before women could vote, Butler took on the patriarchy. Since the murder of Sarah Everard, her campaigning has never seemed more relevant

January 2024

  • Jo Phoenix was found to have been discriminated against by the Open University.

    The law is now clear: you can’t be punished for having gender-critical views. So why does it keep happening?

    Susanna Rustin
    A slew of employment tribunals shows many women have been wrongly disciplined for expressing beliefs on gender and sex, says Guardian writer Susanna Rustin

June 2022

  • Allison Bailey

    Trying to erase the biological definition of sex isn’t just misguided – it’s dangerous

    Susanna Rustin
    Proposals to rewrite the law take gender self-identification too far. Here’s the feminist case against, says writer Susanna Rustin

April 2022

  • A protest from the Respect my Sex if you want my X campaign, Westminster, london, on Saturday 2 April.

    Labour’s contradictory policies on trans and women’s rights must be addressed

    Susanna Rustin
    By backing both reforms to the Gender Recognition Act and single-sex spaces, the party is unable to communicate clearly to voters, says Guardian journalist Susanna Rustin

October 2021

  • Philosophy professor Kathleen Stock

    My hope for a more open discussion of women’s and trans rights is fading

    Susanna Rustin
    After years of polarisation, there seemed to be some progress towards balancing the views of trans activists and gender-critical feminists. Now rhetoric is escalating again, says Guardian leader writer Susanna Rustin

July 2021

  • A woman working from home on her laptop

    If working from home becomes the norm, housing inequality will deepen

    Susanna Rustin
    There are undoubted upsides to remote working, but renters will ultimately lose out to property owners and landlords, says Guardian leader writer Susanna Rustin

May 2021

  • 17 year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, front, delivers a speech after an environmental ‘Fridays for Future’ climate protest in Lausanne, Switzerland, Friday, Jan. 17, 2020. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP)

    How we talk about the climate crisis is increasingly crucial to tackling it

    Susanna Rustin
    Our emotional register – how ‘doomy’ or ‘hopeful’ we are – will inevitably shape the policies we put forward, says Guardian columnist Susanna Rustin

January 2021

  • Illustration by Eva Bee

    The empty Nightingale hospitals show the cost of putting buildings before people

    Susanna Rustin
    The government spent £530m on showy infrastructure for healthcare – but failed to invest in the staff who provide it, says Guardian leader writer Susanna Rustin

September 2020

  • Judith Butler

    Feminists like me aren't anti-trans – we just can't discard the idea of 'sex'

    Susanna Rustin
  • Prof Matthew Smith next to wall

    Jamaican director of UCL's slavery research centre: British racism is 'clear and sharp'

May 2020

  • A cyclist passes a rainbow banner outside Salford Royal Hospital last week.

    The world turned upside down
    Imagine the UK getting rid of road rage, congestion and exhaust fumes for ever

    Susanna Rustin
    Mass changes under lockdown and initiatives abroad could spark a transport revolution, says Guardian leader writer Susanna Rustin

February 2020

  • The Commoners Choir in Manchester.

    Why we need to value our low-carbon pastimes more

    Susanna Rustin
    Remodelling our lives around creativity and participation will ease the transition that the climate crisis demands, says Susanna Rustin, a Guardian leader writer

June 2019

  • Illustration by Matt Kenyon

    We must transform our lives and values to save this burning planet

    Susanna Rustin
    In decades to come we must rethink our agriculture, our love of consumption and our short-termist priorities, says Guardian leader writer Susanna Rustin

February 2019

  • A woman lying on the floor reading

    Why study English? We’re poorer in every sense without it

    Susanna Rustin
    Are students being put off by the way government says the subject must be taught, asks Guardian leader writer Susanna Rustin

December 2018

  • Gareth Southgate celebrates England's win over Sweden in the 2018 World Cup

    The panel
    What were the silver linings of 2018?

    Ash Sarkar, Steven Poole, Susanna Rustin, Ammar Kalia, Mary Dejevsky, and Matthew d'Ancona
  • Theresa May

    Politics Weekly UK
    Project Fear-plus-plus-plus – Politics Weekly podcast

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