This time last week, BBC TV was full of celebrities, news readers, pop stars and actors performing feats and making general fools of themselves to raise money for Children in Need, a charity telethon...
Statistics released last October showed that disability hate crimes against children rose 150% in two years, while disability hate crimes overall rose 53%. This came as no surprise to any disabled...
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...
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...
Dr Jane Barton is a retired GP who, according to the results of a recent inquiry, signed off prescriptions for opioid medications that led to the deaths of up to 650 people at Gosport War Memorial...
Time was you couldn’t move for Brits in Germany. First in military deployments in the Cold War, young British men came to Germany in the tens of thousands. Then in the late 1970s and early 1980s,...
When I was around sixteen years old, I went out shopping for the day with my mum. As we made our way down the bustling high street I noticed a woman who appeared to be flagging us down. It turned out...
My school was pretty strict about its uniform policy. Wearing a coat that wasn’t brown could get you sent home and wearing the wrong coloured socks meant you had to wear someone else’s manky old...
In 2016, Shahmir Sanni volunteered with the Vote Leave campaign, which was aiming to convince British voters to leave the European Union. He was unusual amongst his university peers for being a...
Along with red postboxes, double-decker buses and old-fashioned phone boxes, black taxis are kind of iconic when tourists think of a holiday to the UK. London, in particular, is characterised by the...
