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discrimination Articles

Tackling sexist dress codes

Parliament must act to ensure that discriminatory dress codes that cause women pain, discomfort and stress are stamped out, writes Tori Rigby We have all heard of service with a smile. But have you heard of service with osteoarthritis? No? Well, how about service with...

Why Labour is the party for LGBT rights

Yesterday, the Labour party released their LGBT manifesto, which aims to challenge the prejudice faced by LGBT people. The manifesto included pledges to strengthen the law on LGBT hate crime and ensuring that there is no discrimination on the basis of sexuality in the...

We need to fight the societal sickness that is antisemitism

As those that follow parliamentary proceedings will know, this week I led a debate on antisemitism in the House of Commons. While antisemitism is always bad news, there is perhaps some relief in the constructive measures that we have achieved and are seeking to...

Where are today’s Voltaires?

I detest all forms of racism, sexism and bigotry but have no desire for the state to police the opinions of racists, sexists and bigots. I hold, perhaps naively, to George Orwell’s maxim that liberty, if it means anything, is the right to tell people what they do not...