Advocates are concerned the public will lose interest if they aren’t driving major reforms; sceptics worry that politicians are outsourcing difficult questions to people with neither expertise nor mandate.
We comprise half the electorate. You’re either with us – or with those on the left who can’t even bring themselves to define us.
At the end of the day, being gay in 2020 is ok. We are no longer prime victims of oppression, and we should reject four weeks of self-indulgence and narcissism.
Two different conceptions of it are widely held in the UK, representative and direct. In 2019, they collide.
Rather than going over the heads of the Unionist parties, the Government needs to find a way to address their concerns.
And he asks: why did the Women and Equalities Select Committee choose an adviser open to the charge of being parti pris?
In the second instalment of our mini-series on families and tax, the author says that trading off the two would give parents, straight or gay, greater choice and control.
We need to tackle homophobia where it persists in the community – starting with the use of the word ‘gay’ as an insult.
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The veteran LGBT campaigner says the former Prime Minister’s aides “were terrified I might try and kiss him, or superglue myself to the Cabinet table”.
It looks to be the least bad medium-term means of settling the future of abortion laws in Northern Ireland.
It knows that it can continue the policy of staying out of the institutions in Belfast and London without damaging its long-term strategy. Unionists need them to work.
It has fascinated me since growing up in a single parent family on the outskirts of Belfast – before attending the lowest-performing secondary school in Northern Ireland.
We feel a commission, a working group, an inquiry coming in – to look these inconsistencies, accidents of history and quirks, to see if some tidying-up is required.
I just can’t feel comfortable with these proposals – let alone summon the will to go out and try to convince voters of them.