Interesting opinion piece on this in The Telegraph from Judge Wade.
Quote from article:
The range of people targeted by the Commission for responses has been too narrow. No adequate thought seems to have been given to the difficulty of reaching beyond a limited range of academics and organisations to the full variety of academic voices, organisations, commentators, and members of the general public who have no organisation to speak for them. It is indicative that the controversial campaigning organisation Stonewall seems to have been treated more like a consultant than consultee. Views which contest what are presented as orthodoxies were neither sought nor expressed. People and organisations, ignored thus far, might reasonably lack confidence in the Commission’s impartiality and receptiveness to contrary opinions.
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