1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (305+ words) This is partly because institutions have learnt from the mistakes of the past six years, while plenty of those pushing this agenda proved to be grifters, advocates of racial violence, or good old-fashioned charlatans. Not so, however, in the Church…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (427+ words) Andy Burnham has a problem. Desperate to ensure that his government isn’t defined by releasing killers and sex offenders early, he’s ‘paused’ the planned early releases which are due to commence in September. Then came David Gauke’s ‘Sentencing Review’, which…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago   (590+ words) The Cabinet Office has published its impact assessment of the government bill to ban conversion practices – acts which attempt to change someone’s sexuality or ‘gender identity’. It projects that introducing a ban on LGBT conversion practices will yield benefits worth…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (829+ words) The Spectator Australia Why gays turned against Pride The annual Pride parades celebrated across the globe are not the events they used to be. First held in New York City on 28 June 1970 and going by the name of the Christopher…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (293+ words) Politicians love banning things. Even if the threats they worry about don’t actually exist. In February 2019, amid Conservative defections and the slow death of Theresa May’s Brexit deal, Conservative MP Bill Wiggin decided that the most pressing task for parliament…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (315+ words) The Labour government has just announced plans to push forward with a ban on conversion therapy, apparently to protect LGBT+ people from harm. Its proposed bill is unnecessary, unwanted and unhelpful. Labour’s proposed bill is unnecessary, unwanted and unhelpful Maybe…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (694+ words) The Spectator Australia Did fears about homophobia prevent Preston Davey from being saved? Poor baby Preston didn’t have much of a start in life. His mother Sarah, now 42, was jailed aged 14 for the 1998 torture and murder of a pensioner. Preston…...

3+ mon, 5+ day ago   (373+ words) June is a month most people anticipate for various reasons, it heralding the Isle of Wight Festival, the Summer Solstice and Wimbledon. It’s also a time many of us have come to dread, it being the occasion in which Pride…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (368+ words) The Spectator Australia Named: The MPs gunning to overturn trans guidance If you thought the long-awaited publication of trans guidance had finally put an end to years of madness over toilets and sporting tournaments, think again. After more than a…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (558+ words) France is ready to elect its first openly gay president. That is the belief of Gabriel Attal, who discusses his homosexuality in the memoir that was published yesterday. Attal became the first gay prime minister of the Republic when he…...