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Quango for Bigotry: The shameful recent history of the so-called “Equality and Human Rights Commission”

We’ve been hearing a lot about the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) recently for all the wrong reasons. Many are wondering why a quango meant to enforce the Equality Act appears to be solely focused on making life for trans people more difficult. The EHRC was set up

Kier Starmer walks on the street in a dark shirt and black jacket next to Sadiq Khan who wears a white shirt and navy blue jacket

Labour: the party governing London, that hates London

Keir Starmer’s Labour party owes much of its election win to London, yet they show regular open contempt for London’s voters. Let’s start with an electoral map of London, where Labour holds 59 out of 75 seats. You’d think some gratitude to Londoners would be due

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The whiplash of living in London v the media and political discourse about who lives here

For some time I’ve been thinking about the absolute dissonance between living and working in London and watching the news, checking Bluesky, or god forbid even the Sky News website and finding our political and media elite discussing politics - most of which happens in London - and it

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