"And who can blame them? After more than 370 pages, I began to feel half mad myself. At times, the world Barnes describes, with its genitalia fashioned from colons and its fierce culture of omertà , feels like some dystopian novel. But it isn’t, of course. It really happened, and she has worked bravely and unstintingly to expose it. This is what journalism is for."
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On the scandal concerning children treated by the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) based at the Tavistock Clinic in North London.
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Rachel Cooke
Rachel Cooke (7 July 1969 – 14 November 2025) was a British journalist and writer. Cooke began her career as a reporter for The Sunday Times becoming a regular contributor to The Observer newspaper and the New Statesman (as their television critic).
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