‘Feminism is not finished’

Supporters of the Million Women Rise march and rally opposing violence against women make their way along Oxford Street, London, in May. Photograph: Fiona Hanson/PA If you want to gauge the energy in the current British feminist movement, you have to speak to the young campaigners. Alex Corwin has defined herself as a feminist since [...]

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Guantánamo Bay detainee says interrogation record was blanked

Former Guantánamo Bay detainee Omar Deghayes. Having studied the notes of his interrogations, he says much has been cut out or blacked out. Photograph: Stefan Wermuth / Reuters A former Guantánamo Bay detainee says that key exchanges from his interrogation by British security service officers have been blacked out or deliberately omitted from the notes [...]

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Is coming out a career killer?

Lord Browne said he was happier now he had finally come out. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images It hasn’t been a great few weeks for those who dare to believe that we are living in enlightened times. It had been looking likely that Dr Jeffrey John, the highly regarded dean of St Albans, who came out [...]

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