Friday Links

• Spanish advertising standards - a bit of a difference from the UK
• On the love of books
• Still more slow progress on mental health discrimination in Parliament
• [Trigger warning] A pelvic exam without permission is rape (from Renee in Canada) - and the same in Sweden.
• [Trigger warning] On discussions of transracial adoption
• National Secular Society plans protests for Pope's UK visit - and Pope says that the Equality Bill violates "natural law". I'm glad to find that my local Labour MEP doesn't share the opinions of my local Labour MP on this issue.
• [Trigger warning] Attacks on British Muslims are being brushed under the carpet
• From Earwicga - an investigation into gay-to-straight "conversion" therapy (as available on the NHS)
• Disability: When Accommodations Are Imperfect
• Wiping out human variation (from FWD)
• Inappropriate Language: Some Notes on Words and Context
• [Trigger warning] An interview with David Cameron
• Animal cultures
• How white is our media industry?
• [Trigger warning] Court Ignores Man's Domestic Violence Prior to Murder-Suicide
• [Trigger warning] When the people who claim to help are the problem
• From the Fawcett newsletter: assuming no-one else stands, this general election will have the first all-female set of candidates.