Department for Education refutes “Clause 28” claims for free schools and...
The wording of a clause in the model funding agreement for UK free schools and academies has prompted a controversial comparison with infamous Section 28 legislation. An article published in the Daily...
View ArticleEd Miliband: Gay people were left ‘stigmatised’ by Margaret Thatcher’s...
Ed Miliband has joined his political rivals in paying tribute to Margaret Thatcher in the Commons this afternoon, but says her support for Section 28 caused gay people to be “stigmatised”. Thatcher,...
View ArticleFormer Radio 4 newsreader Alice Arnold: I won’t dance on Thatcher’s grave but...
As a gay woman former BBC Radio 4 newsreader Alice Arnold says celebrating the death of Margaret Thatcher is inappropriate, although admits she celebrated her exit from Downing Street in 1990. Arnold,...
View ArticleGreen MP Caroline Lucas: ‘People in Brighton remember Thatcher’s opposition...
Green MP Caroline Lucas has cited Margaret Thatcher’s opposition to gay rights as one of the reasons for abstaining from Wednesday’s Commons debate, in memory of the former PM, who died on Monday. “I...
View ArticleIan McKellen: ‘Margaret Thatcher misjudged the future with Section 28’
Actor Sir Ian McKellen says Margaret Thatcher “misjudged the future” with her support for Section 28. The funeral of Britain’s former Conservative prime minister, who died from a stroke last Monday at...
View ArticleUK: Thatcher opponents stage funeral protests
Supporters and a small group of protesters lined the route of Margaret Thatcher’s funeral procession on Wednesday. “She took away my milk in [the] 70s, she took away my gay rights in the 80s”, a...
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