Craig Simpson (@Craig_Simpson

Craig Simpson

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Craig Simpson

@Craig_Simpson_

Arts Correspondent for The Daily Telegraph @Telegraph Feel free to get in touch: [email protected]

London, England

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Joined September 2011

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Craig Simpson
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Feb 16
Dispatch from Sudan: In a Khartoum ruin, a plaque split by shellfire bears fragments of a name: Charles George Gordon Sudan wants UK help to rebuild this ravaged palace - where the ongoing civil war began, and where Gordon of Khartoum made his last stand
Battle to save the crumbling palace of General Gordon’s Last Stand
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Craig Simpson
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Jul 29, 2022
New: Oxford University has agreed to return its Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
Craig Simpson
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Jun 13, 2024
Scores of actresses turn down roles in play critical of JK Rowling's gender views Play originally titled TERF C*** features characters like a fictionalised Emma Watson remonstrating with Rowling But these female roles have not been filled
Scores of actresses turn down roles in play critical of JK Rowling’s gender views
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Craig Simpson
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Apr 15, 2019
Singing to a dying building. Devastating tribute to Notre Dame, the spirit of Paris, and France.
Craig Simpson
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Oct 19, 2024
NEW: New: Sir Keir Starmer has removed a portrait of William Shakespeare from No 10 The Bard’s image is the latest painting of a great national figure to be taken down under the Prime Minister
Starmer removes Shakespeare portrait from No 10
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Craig Simpson
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Aug 18, 2025
Kate Baker, of LGB Alliance, told The Telegraph: “The TQ+ lobby corrupts everything it touches. This year there will be no winner of the Polari Prize, no celebration of fantastic LGB authors, no one’s career boosted."
Book prize ‘paused’ after trans backlash over gender-critical nominee
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Craig Simpson
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Oct 6, 2022
Shakespeare's Globe has apologised for "offence caused" by a "moment of misjudgement", after sharing a poem directed at "terfs" Poem was used to promote I, Joan play about non-binary Joan of Arc, and has been deleted
Craig Simpson
@Craig_Simpson_
Jan 17, 2023
The Science Museum has dismantled a trans-inclusive display on sex and gender following complaints it was pushing “propaganda” and not biology.
Science Museum removes trans-inclusive display after ‘propaganda’ complaints
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Craig Simpson
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Dec 18, 2022
NEW: Writers leaving the Society of Authors after it was engulfed in a row of over gender ideology now offered protection at a rival union that has vowed to defend free speech
Writers join rival union that aims to defend free speech after trans row
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Craig Simpson
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Aug 1, 2023
New: Libraries across the country are being advised to prevent LGBT people seeing “offensive” gender-critical books Tips for council libraries suggest hosting drag queen events and limiting copies of “transphobic books” by gender-critical authors
Librarians told to hide books by gender-critical authors
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Craig Simpson
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Jun 17, 2021
Royal Academy pulls artist’s work from gift shop over ‘transphobic’ views Jess de Wahls wrote in a blog in 2019 that ‘transwomen are biologically male’
Royal Academy pulls artist’s work from gift shop over ‘transphobic’ views
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Craig Simpson
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Jul 31, 2023
Revealed: Gender-critical books have been hidden from view at public libraries by “tinpot censors” working for a Labour council
Gender-critical books hidden by ‘tinpot censor’ librarians
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Craig Simpson
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Aug 15, 2025
Tracy Edwards consulting lawyers after cast members in a musical based on her life story used their platform to stage a pro-trans fundraiser.
Sailor attacks musical about her life after actors hijack ending with trans protest
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Craig Simpson
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Oct 27, 2022
Eventbrite ‘silencing women’ by pulling ticket sales for gender-critical event
Eventbrite ‘silencing women’ by pulling ticket sales for gender-critical event
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