Current Affairs News

Radical Moralist Groups are Real Danger

Posted on 25 Jul 2024 in Current Affairs

LGBTQ Nation's correspondent Daniel Villarreal reports that the hypocrisy of an anti-gay conservative activist in the US has been revealed in a police report. Madcap group Moms for Liberty founder Bridget Ziegler arranged bisexual threesomes for her for her equally right wing husband, the former Florida Republican Party Chair Christian Ziegler.

Cutting Through the Lies of Hate Websites

Posted on 20 Jul 2024 in Current Affairs

The Centre for Countering Digital Hate says that it has available for free at its website, several "explainers" - introductions to contemporary issues that cut through the lies of hate mongers and right wing extremists and are considered in a rational and logical way. Among the

Lucky Escape - Tory Election Proposal

Posted on 17 Jul 2024 in Current Affairs

Opposition politicians including Caroline Lucas of the Green Party and Diane Abbott of the Labour Party have joined forces to condemn a government proposal, which was reported by the BBC News Channel, to make it mandatory for tea

X Files Producer Talks Conspiracy & The Right

Posted on 14 Jul 2024 in Current Affairs

Nicole Lampert in the Jewish Chronicle newspaper, hooks up with Daniel Sackheim, the Jewish producer of several episodes of the X Files about the dangers to democracy posed by extremism in the United States, and particular, with respect to the far right

Protecting Young People with Comprehensive Ed

Posted on 8 Jul 2024 in Current Affairs

The Peter Tatchell Foundation for Human Rights says that there is a backsliding in the provision of comprehensive, inclusive reproductive and sex education in schools. The Foundation's bulletin cites a recent interview in gay magazine Attitude with Sexpr

Jul

Oppressive Underpinnings of True Crime Genre

Anarchist and libertarian leftist publishing house AK Press has announced the publication of a major new translation of Nerea Barjola's groundbreaking work, "The

Jun

Porkiy Pie Awards Show Up Mail and Torygraph

The ecological activist group Extinction Rebellion have launched a "porky pie" award to recognise the most egregious examples of distortion, scaremongering and downright lies from the British right

Jun

Human Rights Group Appeals for Funds for Work

The Peter Tatchell Foundation for Human Rights says that it is appealing for people in and outside the LGBTQIA+ communities for funds to conitnue their work. The organisation says

Jun

New Weekly Podcast Showcases Human Rights

International NGO Human Rights Watch says that they have started a new podcast, made available online each week. Rights & Wrongs will take listeners behind the scenes

Jun

Lecture Explores a Progressive Agenda for UK

Humanists UK, which campaigns on behalf of people with no religious affiliation, says that tickets are on sale for the Voltaire lecture 2024 on September 10th.