I have no idea who Paula Wright, the 'brilliant academic' he brought on was, but her simpering and giggling and refusal to take the issue on leaves me thinking that if she's a leading feminist academic it's no ruddy wonder we're in this woeful situation. Posie was excellent: calmly and crisply stating the obvious in the face of 'let's be nice' naivety all round.
Matthew Wright handled it well, constantly dragging the contributors back from personalising it to principles, but some of his observations (there was some nonsense about people in family homes sharing lavatories with members of the opposite sex) seem off-key. Is he lobbing stuff like that in because he needs to be seen to try to be neutral?
The next question is how to we convey the seriousness of loss of rights in these tiny sound-bite interviews. How can we get past the loos and changing rooms to make it clear to those listening and watching that if anyone can be a woman, even if they have a beard and a functioning penis and look like a man, then women's hard fought-for rights will have been eroded for the sake of not offending a few men? Posie had a go at it but MW ignored it to concentrate on loos.