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The missing workplace reality behind Sandie Peggie’s NHS Fife tribunal case
5+ hour, 24+ min ago (936+ words) The tribunal judgment runs to 313 pages, but key evidence at the heart of the Sandie Peggie employment tribunal is yet to be fully dissected. When Peggie, a nurse at NHS Fife, encountered Beth Upton, a biologically male transgender doctor, in…...
America’s abortion wars: inside the clinic on the front line
8+ hour, 52+ min ago (1253+ words) Haley Nathan, 19, writes down the details of women's cars on a clipboard outside an abortion clinic in New Mexico, braced for the day ahead. New Mexico is the closest option for any Texan woman to receive an abortion since the…...
What Led Zep’s John Paul Jones did next — feminist songs and an opera
1+ week, 2+ day ago (459+ words) What does a legendary rock musician do when he turns 80? In the case of Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones, who reached that milestone this month, the unlikely answer is "head for the Wigmore Hall. It's in that hallowed chamber music…...
Obedient Virgin Mary is a lesson to feminists, says archbishop
3+ week, 1+ day ago (279+ words) An Italian cleric has upset the season of goodwill by praising the "obedience" of the Virgin Mary in accepting the "motherhood of Jesus and suggesting it could be a lesson for feminists. "Mary is truly free, free because she knows…...
Why did I love Oh What Fun? Its hardcore feminism, for starters
3+ week, 6+ day ago (341+ words) This won't make headlines on the "normal" news. CNN will not run it on a ticker tape as a breaking item, and Rory and Alastair will not do an "emergency deep dive" on The Rest Is Politics. However, in the…...
Why sorry is the hardest word in Brigitte Macron’s feminist feud
1+ mon, 11+ hour ago (576+ words) Brigitte Macron has apologised to victims of sexual violence over her outburst against radical feminists who interrupted a comedy show in a protest over the issue. However, the first lady inflamed feminist anger by accusing protesters of censorship and proclaiming…...
Is offering women smaller sarnies than men anti-feminist? Maybe not
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (247+ words) Should women be served smaller food portions than men? According to Professor Naveed Sattar, chairman of the Obesity Healthcare Goals programme (the government's obesity initiative): why, yes. We should. In an article for The Lancet, Sattar and his team suggest…...
Labour Party has abandoned women and feminism, says Falkner
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (644+ words) Labour has "abandoned" women over issues such as trans rights and grooming gangs and can no longer call itself the party of equality and feminism, the former head of the human rights watchdog has said. Baroness Falkner of Margravine, whose…...
Baroness Falkner: Labour was the party of feminism — not any more
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1829+ words) The past five years have been, as Baroness Falkner of Margravine puts it, a white-knuckle ride. As chairwoman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, she has found herself at the centre of one of the most toxic and politically…...
Rachel Reeves, the arch-feminist driving women back to the kitchen
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1068+ words) Is it over? I mean, of course, the annual Reevesnalia. The festive time of year when everything skids to a catastrophic stop and we watch a bizarre, overdressed child skipping about congratulating herself, while screaming that it's actually her who's…...