If ministers want to foster a general atmosphere of equal treatment for lawful opinion, institutions such as local authorities and the police must set the example.
The twenty-fourth article in a new series on ConHome about how government might be made smaller, taxpayers better off and and society stronger – through strong families, better schools and good jobs.
Forcing the Forces to fall into line with civilian-based dogma concerning gender, race and sexual-orientation quotas, as well as equality of opportunity in combat zones, has been a two-decades’ long waste of time.
The A list and its successors haven’t kept a golden generation out of Parliament. Many of those who might have made it up aren’t putting themselves forward for selection in the first place.
Above all, they shouldn’t become preoccupied with Woke to the exclusion of everything else. This is the trap that many Labour backbenchers and much of the Left is falling into.
Activists who want free termination up to birth have allowed what was meant to be an emergency measure during Covid to become a dangerous new normal.
We need Universal Enterprise, a relaunch of the Enterprise Allowance scheme targeted at women, to bring down our unusually high level of female economic inactivity.
He adds that he takes a “slightly different view” to Sir Keir Starmer on the percentage of women who have male genitalia.
Instead, the Scottish Government’s review into the high-profile mishandling of a sex offender remains shrouded in secrecy.
Social glorification of its allegedly liberating consequences has too long stifled debate about its impacts – even as it becomes ever easier to get.
My note of caution is that if the Government changes the rules on ratios now, the noise about it will drown every other positive thing we try to do.
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.
A bolder government would not win every battle it fought, but it would win more than one that never gave battle at all.
The First Minister insists that transwomen are women, but defends a separate policy towards placing them in the male prison estate.
In order to pacify Stonewall and its followers outraged by this apparent new outbreak of Labour flip-flopping, Labour has made two very significant, but less publicised, promises.