Louise Page, who has had four amputations, explains how her disability hasn't changed her essential feeling of who she is.

Anna Soubry, Minister for Public Health, says she can tell somebody's background just by looking at their weight. Such claims are not evidence-based, they are prejudice-based, and shouldn't be allowed to inform policy.

A third of the most well-off, high status people in society consider themselves to be working class. Maybe it's time for some new definitions?

We need a proactive and empathetic understanding of why some teenagers seem glued to their screens.

Do not assume you can tell someone’s gender identity just by looking at their gender presentation.

Men convicted of victimless homosexual offences three decades ago are threatened with arrest if they refuse to provide samples for the national DNA database.

The mean and narrow-minded advice in Steve Biddulph’s “Raising Girls”.

Putting the life back into death.

Broke-ness crept up on me stealthily, like adulthood.

Trans patients should not have to please medical staff before they can access treatment, writes Charlie Hallam.

Unexpected people are struggling. The middle is getting closer to the bottom. So what is the way out?

Games as ballet, a playwright on the medium, and (sorry) me talking about ladies, again.

From the new patriotism to Ed Miliband's Jewish heritage, the best NS writing on identity.

Josie Long recalls the student protests, UK Uncut and her activism over two years of Tory government, and celebrates the joy of “coming out” as a feminist.