Toilets have become another front in Britain’s culture war. But privacy, dignity and safety do not have to be mutually exclusive. The law and building rules already point toward practical design solutions. A door with a symbol on it has become one of the most emotionally charged objects in British politics. Arguments about toilets now carry much larger fears about women’s safety, trans people’s dignity, sex, gender, privacy and whether institutions can.

Reform UK wants to replace the UK GDPR framework with lighter privacy rules. The debate is not just about red tape: it is about what businesses can do with personal data and what protections remain when something goes wrong. Reform UK has targeted another piece of regulation it describes as burdensome: the framework governing how organisations collect, store and use personal information. The political pitch is familiar: reduce red tape, free businesses to.