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Comic Relief, Charity and the Elision of Politics
Comic Relief is in the news today due to the imminent transmission of a long-delayed Panorama exposing some of its more dubious activities. Investing in the arms, alcohol and tobacco trades does...
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The Stonewall Workplace Equality Index – Because Awful Companies Like Gays Too
Another year brings with it another edition of the Stonewall Workplace Equality Index, which professes to detail “Britain’s top gay-friendly employers”. According to Ben Summerskill’s foreward:...
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Ben Cohen on Newsnight
Let’s relive the moment last night when Newsnight rather bewilderingly asked a straight man on to discuss a ‘homophobic tweet’. The discussion is asinine, with both Wark and Cohen resorting to...
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Ben Summerskill steps down as Stonewall boss
Farewell, then, Ben Summerskill. We barely knew you. Can it be a coincidence that his departure came only a week after I blogged about the “self-serving and ultimately pointless” Stonewall Workplace...
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Stonewall and O2: Won’t Someone Think of the Children?!
I don’t want to spend too much time on this because, you know, even I have limits. But it’s another week and so we have another woeful Stonewall initiative backed up by some vague (I’m being...
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‘Collateral Murder’, Brendan Eich and the refusal of elites
It was on this day in 2010 that Wikileaks released the video, obtained via Chelsea Manning, which brought them both to public attention and made Western war crimes in Iraq unavoidable. Or so you would...
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BARCLAYS: NICE TO STONEWALL, NOT NICE TO ANYONE ELSE
You will find no shortage of pieces on this blog detailing Stonewall’s endless uselessness. This doesn’t particularly add to any of those but it’s too good not to document. Today they’ve been...
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Lord Browne – Drowning in Shit
The point at which you despairingly wonder “how much longer are we going to put up with this drivel?” came, went and died a lonely death years ago. Hardly anyone seems to have bat an eyelid at Lord...
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#FreedomTo Say No To Barclays at #PrideinLondon
If it wasn’t already basic Marketing 101, I could swear that Barclays had a strategy document hidden away somewhere with a title like ‘Pinkwashing: It’s Piss Easy’. I’ve written a few times previously...
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Soft Power, CSR, Pride and Global Sports Events
Episode One: Soft Power, CSR, Pride and Global Sports Events by The_Kit_And_Sam_Podcast on Mixcloud This podcast from Kit (@KitCaless) and Sam (@AngrySamPoet) is on a series of related subjects close...
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The Joiners’ Arms and Gentrification
In areas like Shoreditch and its peers around the globe, the cosmetic renewal of a portion of the crumbling urban core coincides with continued – or intensified – infrastructural decline. The...
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Boycotts and Kiss-Ins: On LGBT Microaggressions
The media absolutely loves stories of microaggressions (and sometimes just plain aggressions) faced by LGBT people in the service industry. Whether it’s being asked to stop kissing in Sainsbury’s,...
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