equality
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Sluts of the world, unite
Slut, slut, slut, slut, slut, slut. Does it make you cringe? Did your hackles rise? Let’s try again. Slut, slut, slut, slut, slut. OK, I’ll stop now. Actually, the word (wait for it) SLUT has become much more than an offensive word dripping with hidden meanings and implications. As of 2011, it’s become political. It’s…
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Jono Lancaster: the man at the centre of the latest controversial storm
The problem with intending to blog regularly about issues that resonate with me and my specialisms means that there is a wealth of material to choose from. What this means in reality, is that I can’t actually decide, so I don’t decide at all. That’s really not good practise. I know. Then today, the story…
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The return of the 1950s housewife? No thanks.
I was actually going to blog about accessibility this week, but then an article in The Telegraph caught my attention. Well, not so much ‘caught’ as in ‘enraged’ my attention, if such a thing is possible. The Telegraphs so-called Social Affairs Editor writes that what women want, in the 21st century, is to marry a rich man.…
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EHRC v BNP (2009) :It’s a game of Monopoly
“The British National Party is poised to give up its whites-only membership policy after a legal challenge accusing it of racial discrimination,” reports The Times. (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6820847.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=797084) The legal challenge, sought by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, accuses the BNP of breaching the Race Relations Acts (2000) due to its fundamentally racist policies. Not that…
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Hunger strikes, demonstrations, what’s it all about?
What indeed. And while I for one do not see the point of hunger striking in an effort to show solidarity with the people of Gaza, (what good will it do?) I DO see the point in attending demonstrations, if only to increase the number of people there, thereby showing the government just how many…