The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) is polling its membership of doctors over their support for assisted suicide. The status of doctors in the UK is currently that they have voted ‘against’ but...
Occasionally, there are awkward moments in activism, and one of those is finding out that you appear to be on the same side as campaigners who should hate you. The homophobes or the anti-abortionists...
It has to have been the worst week in her dismal career, but somehow Theresa May is still Prime Minister. In a culture where politicians and others in leadership positions frequently fall on their...
If a government minister declares a major incident, you imagine something life-changing and devastating has happened. A bomb has gone off or a train has derailed, a coach has crashed or people have...
If there’s one thing I’ll never forgive Jacob Rees-Mogg for, it’s for making me very somewhat glad that Theresa May retained her seat as Prime Minister. This week, as a bunch of men achieved...
New research for the End Violence Against Women Coalition, carried out by YouGov, has shown devastating attitudes towards sexual consent and rape in the UK. Their report begins: “There is a crisis...
Sir Philip Green, a billionaire business man, categorically denies allegations of sexual and racial harassment and bullying of his employees but, if he had had his way, we would not even know that he...
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...
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’...
Yesterday, it was 12 months since the horrific fire at Grenfell Towers in London. 72 people died and many more were injured, and a public inquiry is ongoing to look at what caused the blaze and how...