Forum Press (2025)

10/04/2025

What does it mean to be a le***an now? Has the quest for le***an liberation stalled, and if so, why?

Part-memoir, part frontline reportage and part cultural commentary, ****ns by examines what defines le***an culture, love, friendship and happiness today.

‘Bracing, nourishing and wonderfully pro-woman’ Victoria Smith, author of

‘A big-hearted, infuriating, clever and highly entertaining read, just like the woman who wrote it’ - Kathleen Stock, author of

‘Julie Bindel has bravely stood against the attempts of the commercial LGBTQ+ movement to erase the reality of le***an lives and experience, against a rising tide of misogyny. This book is a vital contribution to the le***an fightback’ Joanna Cherry KC

‘Julie Bindel has been and still is the tireless truth-teller we all need. She’s even managed to unite the LGB like never before. I wish we’d never divorced…’ James Dreyfus

Available now in hardback, ebook and audio.

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13/02/2025

Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed is an imam and Koranic scholar. He is also gay.

In this memoir, he explains the journey he has taken to be both the founder of a mosque in Paris and to be openly gay, after a troubled childhood in Algeria in poverty and living with an aggressive and often violent father. Having found it impossible in that society to be both religious and true to himself, and being abandoned by a fellow school pupil with whom he was in love, he lost his faith.

Trained as an imam, though, he became an accomplished Koranic scholar. He concluded that there was nothing in the Koran that condemned same-sex attraction or committed same-sex relationships. Finally, during a pilgrimage to Mecca, he understood that he could be fully himself and practise his religion with sincerity and commitment.

tackles these subjects with originality and is a book of real bravery, that shows how it is possible to reconcile homosexuality and religion.

Available now from all good bookstores and online.

16/01/2025

‘Brilliant and inspiring … well worth reading by everyone’

A fascinating journey into Islam’s diverse history of ideas, making an argument for an ‘Islamic Enlightenment’ today.

In , Mustafa Akyol frankly diagnoses ‘the crisis of Islam’ in the modern world, and offers a way forward. Diving deeply into Islamic theology, and sharing lessons from his own life story, he reveals how Muslims lost the universalism that made them a great civilization in their earlier centuries – and what the cost has been. He highlights how values often associated with Western Enlightenment – freedom, reason, tolerance, and an appreciation of science – had Islamic counterparts, which tragically were cast aside in favour of more dogmatic views, often for political reasons.

Available now in paperback from all good bookstores and online.

12/11/2024

‘This is a book for our time’ The House Magazine

‘A must-read for anyone trying to understand race, racism and social mobility in Britain today’ Munira Mirza, CEO Civic Future

‘As a black Briton with Caribbean heritage, this book spoke to my heart’ Katharine Birbalsingh

In this truthful and often surprising book, Tony Sewell weaves together memoir and argument to explore the drivers of black success. He traces black people’s hard-won achievements back to their source: family, religion, education, hard work, discipline and the property market.

is essential reading not only for black Britons who are fed up with a narrative that denies them agency and responsibility, but also for anyone who wants a balanced perspective on race relations in Britain today.

is out now in paperback, available in all good bookstores and online.

25/10/2024

The UK faces a falling fertility rate and a crisis in social care. Must women bear the blame?

23/10/2024

‘With sharp insights and compelling arguments, this book is a vital call to rethink how we value care in both the home and the public economy’ - Ruth Kelly, Former Labour Minister for Women and Equalities

‘Goodhart’s books demand to be read’ - Jon Cruddas, former Labour MP and main author of the party’s 2015 manifesto

’Essential … an important addition to an important debate’ - Oonagh Smyth, CEO, Skills for Care

Family life has changed dramatically over the past 60 years.

Greater choice and autonomy, especially for women, and a more equal domestic sphere have brought great gains for human freedom. However, argues Sunday Times-bestselling author David Goodhart, there have been losses and unintended consequences too – in family instability, children’s declining mental health, and the ever-rising demands on the welfare state and social care system. Sharply falling birthrates also present major challenges.

For many people, especially in the bottom half of the income spectrum, the costs are now too high. The Care Dilemma argues that we need a new policy settlement that supports gender equality while also recognising the importance of stable families and community life, and that sees having children as a public as well as private good.

David Goodhart is Head of Demography at the think tank . He is a former Director of Demos, and former Editor of which he founded in 1995. David is a prominent figure in public debate in the UK, a well-known broadcaster, author, commentator and journalist, and a commissioner on the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

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12/09/2024

‘Beyond Grievance is a heartfelt and packed-with-stats plea to the Left to abandon victimhood indulgence and instead celebrate the varied and extraordinary triumphs of different ethnic minority groups and individuals. A wake-up call for all of us’ - Katharine Birbalsingh, headteacher of the Michaela School

highlights the growing tensions between the liberal cosmopolitanism which defines much of the British political Left, and the patriotic faith-based conservatism that runs deep in many of Britain’s ethnic-minority communities. With American-style racial identity politics taking root in the UK, the book argues that many liberal-leftists are disregarding the attachments to the traditional triad of faith, family and flag in historically Labour-voting, ethnic-minority communities.

Rakib Ehsan argues that Britain needs a robust civic patriotism which understands that a stable family unit is the finest form of social security known to humankind; a cultural arrangement which appreciates that faith is a vital source of strength and optimism across a diversity of communities. Providing a much-needed corrective to the toxic mixture of tribal identity politics and radical cultural liberalism on the modern British Left, the book presents the case for an inclusive ‘social-justice traditionalism’ rooted in family, security, and equality of opportunity.

Available now in paperback and ebook.

29/08/2024

‘Brave and deeply considered … Her experience, and Transsexual Apostate, shouldn’t be dismissed’

by Debbie Hayton, a transwoman’s honest account of coming to accept what she is, publishes today in paperback.

‘The personal and the political - this book left me with a new understanding of the most controversial struggle of our time. Brilliant’ Jenni Murray

‘Debbie Hayton is a thoughtful and insightful writer, who explores her own experience with sexuality and sexual identity in a way that can help illustrate some of the complexities of identity and desire’ Sophie Scott, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience

‘Debbie Hayton provides a brave, unflinching, insightful account that challenges both the Left and Right, but no more than it challenges her own prior beliefs and decisions. This is required reading for anyone wanting to understand male gender dysphoria’ Michael Bailey, author of

‘Required reading … It offers a way through the confusion, placing compassion and our shared humanity front and centre’ Graham Linehan

08/07/2024

Shortlisted for the 2023 Sports Book of the Year Award and the Pinsent Masons Sports Writing Award in the 2024 🏅

A and Book of the Year

‘A hard-hitting, important, scientifically rigorous polemic ... thrillingly fearless’

‘With forensic attention to detail, gathers the hard evidence ... Gives a compelling account of how women in sport continue to be subjugated’

Available now in paperback.

05/07/2024

‘Stimulating and provocative’

‘A courageous and intellectually convincing book … a call to action and a programme for change’

‘Kaufmann offers an important contribution to our understanding of the Culture Wars that envelopes the Western World. He provides a unique and profound analysis of the woke phenomenon … Read this book and join the fight back’

The once-dominant philosophy of the West, defined by free expression, equal treatment of individuals, national solidarity and scientific rationality, is under threat. ‘Cultural socialism’ – which advocates harsh restrictions on free speech, due process and national symbols in order to reduce psychological harm and bolster the esteem of formerly marginalized groups – is on the rise.

Rather than focusing on Marxist revolutionaries or equality law, In Eric Kaufmann concentrates on well-meaning left-liberals. He argues that the genesis of ‘woke’ cultural socialism emerged from liberal taboos around race that arose in the 1960s and came to be weaponised and extended to other areas, such as gender. Using extensive survey data, he shows that this process is driven mainly by values, not fear, and is only going to accelerate as culturally leftist generations enter the workforce and electorate. Its rise suppresses the open debate that makes effective policy-making possible, harming the minorities cultural socialists purport to help. Only if we shift from encouraging minority fragility to building minority resilience, using state power to check institutional illiberalism, can we resist cultural socialism and restore cultural flourishing.

This is the authoritative study of the radical shift in values that has turbo-charged the culture wars of our time. No-one concerned with the cultural and political conflicts of our times can afford to miss it.

Available now from all good bookstores and online.

04/07/2024

‘Highly readable ... Everything we need to know on this subject’ 🌎

A population calamity is unfolding before our eyes. It started in parts of the developed world and is spreading to the four corners of the globe. There are just too few babies being born for humanity to replace itself.

Leading demographer Paul Morland argues that the consequences of this promise to be calamitous. Labour shortages, pensions crises, ballooning debt: what is currently happening in South Korea – which faces population decline of more than 85% within just two generations - threatens to engulf us all, and sooner than we think. In the developed world we may be able temporarily to stave off the worst of its effects with immigration, but many countries, including those the immigrants come from, will get old before they get rich.

charts this future, explains its causes and suggests what might be done. Unless we radically change our attitudes towards parenthood and embrace a new progressive pro-natalism, argues Morland, we face disaster.

Paul Morland has been praised as the ‘UK’s leading demographer’ and ‘one of the world’s pre-eminent demographers’

Available now in all good bookstores and online.

24/06/2024

‘Luke Conway has played a key scientific role in bringing political psychology back to political reality’ , author of

‘Conway shines a harsh light on the blind spots of academic social psychology, showing how progressive bias has prevented the discipline from interrogating the problem of left-wing authoritarianism’ , author of

‘This immensely readable book is a vital contribution to understanding political psychology’ - MD, American Enterprise Institute

‘A veritable road map to guide people in how to speak out against authoritarianism in all walks of life and how to engage it constructively’ - , Department of Psychological Science, University of Arkansas

The political left has an urgent and rising problem with authoritarianism. Using his own cutting-edge research, leading psychologist Luke Conway shows in that it’s not just right-wing extremists who long for an authority figure to crush their enemies, silence opponents and restore order; it’s also those who preach ‘be kind’ and celebrate their ‘inclusivity.’

A persistent proportion of left-wingers demonstrate authoritarian tendencies, and they’re becoming more emboldened as they gain cultural and political power. On a range of scientific and social issues, they are increasingly advocating censorship over free debate, disregarding the rule of law, and dehumanising their opponents. These tendencies are part of an accelerating ‘threat circle’ of mutual hatred and fear between left and right that could tear apart our basic democratic norms.

Concluding with an eloquent call for firm but rational resistance to this rising tide of liberal bullying, Conway presents a way forward for our hyper-partisan era.

Out now in all good bookstores and online.

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