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New TV Network Offers Right Wing News Slant

Posted on 31 May 2021 in Opinion

GB News TV, the latest national television network, goes “live” on Sunday June 13th and will be available on all platforms including the free to air freeview. The new station is going to be right of centre in its political reportage, something which will surprise some sections of the public, who are used to rigorously enforced impartiality on BBC and Sky News channels. In fact, it is not true that British broadcasters have to be totally impartial.

Time to Rethink and Relaunch London Pride?

Posted on 22 May 2021 in Opinion

Peter Tatchell has published some proposals for an alternative march to the main Pride Festival, scheduled for 11th September.

Criticism of Criminal Justice Legislation

Posted on 10 Apr 2021 in Opinion

Isabel Ringrose writes an essay for the left wing weekly paper the Socialist Worker slamming the Home Secretary’s plans for reforms and beefing up of police in its new Criminal Justice legislation. Isabel is critical of those single issue feminist separatists, such as anti-trans

What's on the TV for LGBTQ People - Tuesday

Posted on 16 Mar 2021 in Opinion

On Tuesday evening (16th March), some programming of possible interest to LGBTQ People and allies on terrestrial television.

Harry's Blast at Brit Papers will Resonate

Posted on 11 Mar 2021 in Opinion

Prince Harry named and shamed the right wing and anti-gay newspaper the Daily Mail as putting his family at risk, in the much awaited interview with Oprah Winfrey on Monday evening. The Prince was speaking on the CBS Network in the States and on ITV in the Unit

Mar

Pageant Bars Trans+ Participants: Protests?

It's a cruel twist of fate that on the same day that LGBTQ civil rights were enshrined in a new law in the United States of America, the Equality Act, a judge in Oregan ruled that

Mar

White Feminists Don't Deliver for Majority

Koa Beck, the feminist theorist and cultural critic, previews her new book on White Feminism in the popular street sold magazine The Big Issue. Beck finds that ma

Feb

Writer Explores How Minorities Benefit Pride

The Jewish Chronicle has often pulled out strands of commonality between LGBTQ people and the Jewish population, noting our common experiences of oppression and resistance. This w

Feb

"Free Speech" Code for White Supremacy

The well respected African-Caribbean weekly The Voice reveals shocking evidence that the Conservative Government is kicking savagely back against the Black Lives Matter movement an

Feb

Glowing Endorsement of HIV Period Drama

The left wing weekly Socialist Worker pulls no punches when it says that Russell T Davies’ new AIDS era drama for Channel Four, “It’s A Sin”, will have audiences c