The Crown Prosecution Service has announced this week that it will be clamping down on hateful or offensive speech towards bisexual people. Amid rising volumes of reports to police, the CPS consulted community groups and criminal justice partners to produce these revised statements, covering the different strands of hate crime. ...
The outgoing Conservative MP for Peterborough launched a tirade at a constituent after losing his seat to a Labour candidate for the first time in 12 years. Businessman Christian Stanley who has lived in Peterborough for the past decade had criticised his MP Stewart Jackson in conversations with other constituents on Facebook but ...
13 years ago, I was part of the team at Stonewall that helped achieve workplace equality, same-sex marriage and the Equality Act, protecting lesbian, gay and bi people in terms of goods and services. Today, the Democratic Unionist Party, now in coalition with the Conservative Party, opposes many of these hard-won rights. ...
TIME magazine today revealed its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, with notable entries such as Ivanka Trump, John Legend and 17 year-old LGBT activist Gavin Grimm included on the list. The list features U.S. President Donald Trump, and other U.S. political figures including Stephen Bannon, Ivanka Trump, ...
Campaigners chained themselves to a jet to stop a mass deportation charter flight to Nigeria and Ghana last night. There were 17 arrests on suspicion of aggravated trespass after the protestors chained themselves to a wing of the plane and each other, forming a human chain blocking the jet on a non-commercial ...
Moonlight’s Best Picture win at the 89th Academy Awards will always be remembered as the most botched Oscars moment of all time. Which is a shame, because it is historic in many other ways. Moonlight is also the first Best Picture winner to have an all black cast and to ...
A teacher who was bullied as a schoolboy for being gay bravely came out to 1,000 of his pupils during a school assembly. Daniel Gray made the bold decision to be open about his sexuality after being told to keep it a secret while training to be a teacher. But ...
Artists, writers, journalists and campaigners are among the candidates shortlisted for the 2017 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards. Drawn from more than 400 crowdsourced nominations, the shortlist celebrates the people fighting for freedom of expression against immense obstacles, with many of the 16 shortlisted nominees regularly targeted by authorities ...
The UK vote for Brexit showed Europe that the UK wanted to stand alone as a united Britain outside of Europe. However, a new study indicates that more people now think of themselves as English rather than British. The YouGov statistics found that nearly 20 per cent of people think ...