The Guardian is a great newspaper and it remains so even if, puzzlingly, more than a fifth of its workforce – both editorial and commercial – appear to think there is something appalling about working for a newspaper.

That is the first and most glaring conclusion to be drawn from the extraordinary letter signed by 338 Guardian and Observer employees lamenting the paper’s willingness to run a column written by the great Suzanne Moore earlier this week, in which Moore argued that “we have gone through the looking-glass and are being told that sex is a construct” and that “you either protect women’s...