The Dancing Queen should be ashamed
We’re finally approaching the end of the party conference season and this week has seen the Conservative party conference in full flow. It made news when some young conservatives apparently did a...
Category: Europe
UK rape statistics show we are letting survivors down
It’s been a tough week for rape and sexual assault survivors across the world. The media, even on this side of the pond, is overwhelmed by coverage of the extraordinary Christine Blasey Ford...
There’s an epidemic of sexual assault on psychiatric wards
Being an inpatient in a hospital can be a lonely and frightening time. You are so ill that you can’t stay at home and you are separated from those who love and care for you – visiting hours are...
Queer kids are self-harming at a terrifying rate; services are letting them down
New research from the Children’s Society has found that one quarter of British 14-year-old girls have self-harmed. When looking at children who have experienced any degree of same-sex attraction...
Why Brexit medication shortages terrify me
A few months ago, KFC changed its logistics provider that organised its deliveries of chicken. It went horribly wrong and, for week after week after week, the store had no chicken to sell its...
Will Boris get away with his ‘burqa’ insults?
Boris Johnson has been making headlines all week following a column he wrote in which he described women wearing burkas as looking like letter boxes and bank robbers. He was actually talking about...
Can we all calm down about sex ed?
The UK’s current sex education curriculum for schools was last updated in 2000, before we had ever heard of camera phones, Facebook or YouTube. It’s a different world, so an update of schools’...
UK Government’s zero-tolerance drugs policy is proving deadly
Medical experts denounce policy’s “false claims and empty promises” and doctors join call for decriminalisation of drugs — but is the Government capable of listening? Deaths caused by drugs...
A UK plastic straw ban would be a disaster
I’ve recently got very into eating yoghurt. It’s fruity and fresh and tasty and I can’t believe I didn’t eat any for years, but they were so associated with diet culture that I couldn’t...
Don’t implicate all cis lesbians in your transphobia
When Sheffield Pride announced a few months ago that its parade was going to be a celebration and not a protest, there was widespread outrage. They had completely misunderstood the history of Pride...