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Progressive, passionate and principled politicians are out there. To them I say now is the time for courage.
To reclaim the part of my body that almost killed me and that had been so medicalised for so long – to choose to do something really deliberate and out there – was a way to take back control.
In debating regulation, we appear to have skipped past some of the fundamental questions around scope and purpose.
I came to really love the coming out process. But it was also a bit like planning a wedding guestlist: trying to keep across who I’d told and who I still had to tell, and trying not to hurt anyone’s feelings.
This is a time for communities to come together, it is not just a case of leaving this to the police.
Blue Labour is about placing family, faith and work at the crux of our politics. It’s not nostalgic – but a response to current concerns exhibited by a large number of Labour voters.
Manosphere ideas have snowballed into an ideology that has taken on a life of its own, and for some it has served as a route into wider far-right politics.
We’re frequently reminded depression is 'not just like feeling sad'. But having experienced both, I don’t think it should be taboo to admit that my sadness isn’t that different to what my depression was like.
To paraphrase Einstein, problems cannot be solved with the same mind set that created them.
For over 965 days now we have been one of three things – often all three together: bargaining chips; a punching bag; and subjects of hate