Jessica Harriet

Jessica Harriet

Labour’s Section 28 with a twist

School

The shameful era of Section 28 echoes in the trauma of those subjected to government-sanctioned homophobia, embedding silence and stigma that continues to harm LGBTQIA+ people today. Margaret Thatcher, in her infamous reasoning behind the indefensible decision to “prohibit the…

Phillipson’s Choice

Bridget Phillipson

The EHRC is no longer an institution of protection. It is a tool of orchestrated erasure, and Labour is choosing to keep it that way. The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, Human Rights Watch, and eighteen United Nations experts have…

Authoritarian EHRC

Protesters from Trans Kids Deserve Better outside the EHRC’s London office, with a banner reading 'LISTEN TO US.'

The Equality and Human Rights Commission is falling apart. Its Chair, Kishwer Falkner, in a plea of authoritarian desperation, said “It is unacceptable to question the integrity of the regulator”, but the EHRC’s lack of integrity is on full display. …

NHS Fife: A step in the plan

The result of this tribunal does not define the success of its motivator, SexMatters. It is deeply disheartening that Dr Beth Upton can be referred to without, shamefully what has become, the privilege of anonymity. Employment tribunals only see the…