News Round-Up
6 May 2025
The Green Blob Won’t Take This Lying Down
6 May 2025
by Ben Pile
In the wake of the Supreme Court's landmark trans ruling, is a Gender Recognition Certificate worth anything at all? Not really, says Mark Ellse – but our muddled politicians won't be in a rush to admit they messed up.
Transgender women are to be banned from playing women’s football in England following the Supreme Court ruling that trans women are legally men, as the FA follows its Scottish counterpart in bringing in a ban.
Dr Shahrar Ali was the Green Party justice spokesman when he was removed over his gender critical views. He won an unlawful discrimination claim in 2024. But the party then ejected him! He's now taking it to court again.
There is no such thing as 'positive' discrimination. And when it creeps into life-or-death professions like policing or flying a plane, it stops being merely unjust. It becomes dangerous, says Daniel Fessahaye.
White men have been blocked from applying for coaching jobs at Premier League football clubs including Manchester United and Liverpool under a policy that appears to be a direct contravention of equality law.
The Sentencing Council's abortive effort to introduce two-tier sentencing highlights a crucial issue, says law expert Dr Kyriakos N. Kotsoglou: people should always be treated as individuals, not members of a social group.
NHS trusts discriminate against white job applicants by manipulating interview shortlists in favour of black and ethnic minority candidates.
White British candidates have been blocked from applying for a job at a large UK police force in its latest attempt to boost diversity. A whistleblower explains the race-based sifting process he was involved with.
Britain is a two-tier country all the way down, says Laurie Wastell. It's not just in justice and policing: in housing, too, racism by minorities advertising exclusively to co-ethnics is very common and never prosecuted.
Gender ideology is so obviously ludicrous that it has spawned hundreds of silly charts across the public and private sector to try to get itself taken seriously. Caroline Ffiske takes a look at some of the worst.
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