US vice president JD Vance has reportedly told the UK government that it must roll back its LGBTQ+ hate speech laws to get a trade deal over the line. As markets across the globe reel from Donald Trump’s unprecedented tariffs, Vance said a trade deal between the two nations is close to being agreed with […]

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Following the UK’s Supreme Court ruling, trans women held in custody by the British Transport Police (BTP) will now be strip searched by male officers, not female. On Wednesday (16 April) the Supreme Court ruled in a landmark case brought by gender-critical group For Women Scotland against the Scottish government that the the legal definition […]

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Activists have sent an unmissable message to the US government: people will die without the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). In January, secretary of state Marco Rubio announced that PEPFAR – the United States governmental initiative, set up by George W Bush to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the developing world – would be […]

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