Has the #MeToo Movement Gone too Far?

Germaine Greer

Germaine Greer is a world-renowned feminist, intellectual and orator. She is the author of a number of influential books including The Female Eunuch, Slip-Shod Sibyls and The Whole Woman. She was a special lecturer at Newnham College Cambridge and Professor of English and Comparative Studies at Warwick University. Her television appearances include The Late Review, Have I Got News for You, Angry Old Women and, controversially, Celebrity Big Brother.

Melanie Phillips

Melanie Phillips is a British journalist, broadcaster and author. Her weekly column, which currently appears in the Times of London, has been published over the years in the Guardian, Observer, and Sunday Times. She also writes for the Jerusalem Post and Jewish Chronicle, is a regular panellist on BBC Radio’s The Moral Maze and speaks on public platforms throughout the English-speaking world.

Her best-selling book Londonistan, about the British establishment’s capitulation to Islamist aggression, was published in 2006 by Encounter, New York. An updated paperback edition of Guardian Angel, her personal and political memoir, was published in the US by Bombardier in January 2018. Her first novel, The Legacy, will be published by Bombardier in April. 

Helena Kennedy QC

Helena Kennedy QC has practised at the Bar for 40 years in the field of criminal law and has conducted many of the leading cases in those years, including the Balcombe Street Siege, the Brighton bombing trial, the Guildford Four Appeal, the Michael Bettany Espionage case, the Jihadist fertiliser bomb plot, and the transatlantic bomb plot. She has championed law reform for women, especially relating to sexual and domestic violence and developed the defence of Battered Women’s syndrome in the British courts. She has chaired the British Council for 6 years and the UK Human Genetics Commission for 8 years. She is chair of Justice, the British arm of the International Commission of Jurists and Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford. She is the chair of the Booker Prize Foundation.

Sophie Walker

Sophie Walker is a feminist activist, founding leader of the Women’s Equality Party, and recently-appointed chief executive of Young Women’s Trust. She was named by Vogue in 2018 as one of the ‘New Suffragettes’ and is a regular contributor to broadcast and print media.

Hannah MacInnes