2+ hour, 20+ min ago   (883+ words) 4am - 7am4am to 7am Rachel Fletcher spent more than two decades as a detective with Northumbria Police, working with children and vulnerable adults. But she says her career changed after she began openly challenging policing policies around sex and gender. She helped to…...

1+ week, 21+ hour ago   (511+ words) Trans and non-binary people need the government to step up and take legislative action to restore our right to exist fully as ourselves in UK society, writes CEO of the UK's only transgender and non-binary domestic violence shelter Melissa Dee…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (687+ words) 7pm - 10pm7pm to 10pm Sam Fender and Olivia Dean have made chart history after their hit Rein Me In became the longest-running number one single of all time by a British act. The duet has now spent 16 consecutive weeks at the top of…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (593+ words) We need to be very careful to provide safe and confidential spaces for young people to explore their feelings around gender By Natasha Devon MBE This week, the DfE published new statutory guidance for schools on safeguarding which will come…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1309+ words) 4am - 7am4am to 7am 6am - 10am6am to 10am Earlier this month, Tobias Cordes was travelling on the Elizabeth Line with his partner, as the pair travelled home from the airport following a holiday. Recounting the incident, he explained that a man he did not know boarded…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1143+ words) 6am - 10am6am to 10am People who carry out abusive so-called conversion therapy could face five-year jail sentences and unlimited fines under proposed new laws to ban it. The draft Conversion Practices Bill, covering England and Wales, was being published on Thursday after a…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago   (826+ words) 1pm - 4pm1pm to 4pm An Oxford University professor labelled a "bigot" by pro-trans rights activists has cancelled upcoming lectures after they disrupted two of his talks. Dr Michael Foran, 32, an associate professor of law at the university, was heckled by protesters at two…...

6+ mon, 4+ week ago   (991+ words) Footballer Josh Cavallo has accused his former club Adelaide United of homophobia in how they dropped him from the team. The 26-year-old now plays for semi-professional side Stamford AFC in the UK having left the Australian team. He said he…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago   (708+ words) The term dates all the way back to 1956 Cambridge Dictionary has revealed “parasocial” as its word of the year for 2025, defined as involving a connection someone feels between themselves and a famous person they do not know. Psychologists have observed…...

9+ mon, 6+ day ago   (495+ words) A newsreader who changed the phrase ‘pregnant people’ to ‘women’ during a live broadcast has been found to have broken BBC impartiality rules. Martine Croxall pulled a face while deviating from her autocue while introducing an interview with an assistant…...