‘ this is not what a functioning de mocr acy looks like ’

In 2000, Banu Mushtaq was subject to a fatwa for saying that it was not Islam itself that prohibited women from entering certain mosques, but the patriarchs of those mosques. Today the writer, lawyer

At Downing Street’s Pride reception in July, prime minister Sir Keir Starmer said attendees were there to “celebrate that truly transformational work” carried out by LGBTQ+ organisations. “I want you

A spectre is haunting Keir Starmer’s Labour. Just as the prime minister and his chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, thought they had banished the ghost of Corbynism, a new wave of “left populism” has st

From local estates to the school gates, scaremongering about asylum seekers has caused a dangerous rise in far-right sentiment

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It’s time for a revolution in the workplace, if not for us then for our daughters, says Anna Whitehouse