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Friday, 15 January 2010

Friday Links

  • The Times reports on all-women shortlists and the suggestion that the UK will need to adopt the laws of some other countries that require parties to field a certain proportion of female candidates.
  • Ben Goldacre on bad reporting of changes in public and private pay
  • Snow and disability
  • The misuse of anti-terrorism laws for racial profiling and the increasing misuse of them
  • Feminism has always been on the wane
  • Syma Tariq at The F-Word on female drug mules and the need for state-funded education
  • Transphobic comments on QI
  • Campaigners get your hands off our lunchboxes, and more generally classism in the "good nutrition" campaigns
  • Bird of Paradox comments on Italy's "first prison for transgender inmates"
  • An important distinction between offence and harm
  • [trigger warning] Swedish court decides sexual assault is not a crime
  • An end to [mental health] discrimination in Parliament? It would be good if they went through with it.

Also, [trigger warning] for all of the following links about the recent rape prosecution failures:

  • Penny Red
  • The F-Word
  • The Curvature
Posted by cim at 19:39
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