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Horrible people have exactly the same rights as nice people: the right to freedom of speech, to a fair trial and to seek political asylum.
While it might appear benign on the surface, the narrative that other people are better placed than women themselves to make choices about their bodies, continues to kill women on a daily basis.
Stepping out into a society that is so suspicious of your blackness feels dangerous. It feels hostile, ostracising. It is a society where you are always a suspect and where you are constantly on trial.
Parliament – and maybe, with a vote, the country – still has one last chance to converge on options that eschew fantasy and reflect the real tradeoffs.
I cannot describe how it feels to be 15 and believe that your government, your teachers, your parents even have betrayed you. Our futures, our very existence, are at risk because of the choices that they made.
Watching myself through the lens of Claire on Fleabag taught me that actually, sometimes just letting your sister be her own person can be the most nurturing gift you can give her.
Over the long term, as the open generation increasingly outnumber their elders, representing their values will become the only possible winning proposition.
Voter ID is an easy way of updating an outdated identification system from the Victorian era
These elections could accelerate the fragmentation of a fragile two-party stalemate, providing an institutional foothold for new parties forged on the issue of Europe.
Women are widely recognised and accepted as being more ‘emotionally intelligent’ than men. But it's becoming increasingly clear there is no genetic reason to back this up.