Ferreting around

Do politicians really believe that ferrets are more important than the safeguarding of women and children?

Labour MP Sarah Champion wants you know that her brother had a ferret called Oscar. She believes that this information must be raised in the House of Commons, committed for posterity to Hansard and, above all, should take precedence over the medicalisation of gender nonconforming and autistic children and women’s rights to single-sex spaces.

It sounds li…