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• The equal pay implementation at a Wales council causes complaints from the people losing salary as a result. Union rep Paul Elliott says "Quite clearly we don't want to see situations where we achieve equal pay at the expense of jobs or at the expense of terms and conditions". I wonder whether the people who will benefit from having their pay equalised would agree.
• A homophobic assault in London leaves two injured, one critically.
• Northumbria police sets up a specialist rape investigation squad. I've not had an answer from my MP yet on whether Durham police are going to do anything useful.
• A detailed cis privilege list.
• The effect of unconscious racism on setting in schools.
• A complaint about racism finally sees someone sacked from their media post. The complainant.
• An argument over how best to support women to balance work and family yet again ignores the fact that it should be an issue for men too.
• Cara at the Curvature talks about the ablism inherent in the insurance concept of "pre-existing conditions".