Retailer Debenhams is advancing the cause of disability equality by featuring a wheelchair user in a window display at its Oxford Street store in London.
Continue reading Disabled model features in Debenhams display.
February 2010 Archives
Two inventive approaches to confront racism this week appeal to Outside Left: one, predictably perhaps, involves subversion; the other, rather more predictably, appeals to his stomach.
Continue reading Subverting the BNP and an eat-in to challenge racism.
As we have discovered this week, the issue of bullying is a tricky one in that the lines can be blurred between single incidents of anger directed at different people and a continuous stream of invective aimed at a particular person.
Continue reading Would you use the National Bullying Helpline?.
With new guidance governing prosecutions for assisted suicide due next week, the former TV presenter Ray Gosling's candid confession that he helped a lover die may achieve the opposite to what was (presumably) intended.
Continue reading Ray Gosling, assisted dying and the art of bad timing.
It is a poor indictment of our private education system that simple arithmetic continues to bamboozle what we are led to believe is the government-in-waiting.
Continue reading Teenage mums: Lies, damned lies and Tory statistics.
Three weeks ago the Daily Telegraph carried a letter praising social workers. It is incumbent upon me to convey the news that normal service has resumed.
Continue reading Bash the social worker: normal service resumes.
It was a proposal that attracted the predictable response that it wouldn't work, it couldn't be enforced. But, slowly, more people are agreeing that a way will have to be found to introduce and police minimum pricing for alcohol.
Continue reading Call for minimum alcohol pricing gathers momentum.
I fear for the health of the policy gurus at Iain Duncan Smith's Centre for Social Justice. Their seeming long hours and late nights dedicated to keeping us informed of the continuing tremors along the fault line of broken Britain appear to be inducing a form of amnesia.
Continue reading Iain Duncan Smith and his forgetful army.
Will he cut or won't he cut? And, if he does cut, where will he cut?
Continue reading Will Cameron don his flip-flops to spare public sector?.
I thought these days had been consigned to history: when psychotherapists attempt to convert gay men (but not lesbians, curiously) to a life of heterosexuality.
Continue reading Gay-straight conversion therapy on NHS, god willing.
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