The occasion of Peter Tatchell’s 60 th birthday. Man’s a loon of course. His various forays into the world of economics have been laughably ignorant. Certain of his campaigns have been based upon very, very, odd readings of the world. Yet, as Sellars and Yeatman didn’t put it, he’s not been rong but romatic, nor

“It’s a Coalition, innit!” No one would accuse me – I hope – of a lack of commitment to LGBT equality. Nor would anyone  – I fear – of being a cheer-leader for the Government, nor indeed of slavish support for Liberal Democrats in Government. But I can not accept my friend Peter’s criticism of

Bravo to the Liberal Democrat party conference. Two years ago, party members voted overwhelmingly to end the twin legal bans on same-sex civil marriages and opposite-sex civil partnerships. They committed a future Lib Dem government to scrap sexual orientation discrimination in marriage and partnership law. Well done. Thank you Sadly, the Lib Dem Equality Minister,

Peter Tatchell argues over at Compass that the Left, and Labour, should make economic democracy its new focus. I agree. In this post I’m going to flesh out some reasons why this is a good idea.

What do Peter Tatchell and the Christian Institute have in common? Before you answer, this isn’t some deeply unfunny jibe from a Coalition colleague, but one of many unexpected alliances which have formed to oppose Section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986. This rather insidious Section criminalises all those who use “threatening, abusive or

Speaking at the protest, political campaigner Peter Tatchell proposed a one-off 20pc emergency tax on the net wealth of the richest 10pc of the UK population, as well as the introduction of a “Tobin Tax” on financial transactions. “The richest 10pc of the UK population have a combined personal wealth of £4 million, million. A

I rarely see eye to eye with Peter Tatchell, but his recent Guardian CiF article does legitimately raise a very uncomfortable issue. Afghan advocates of women’s equality oppose a swift troop pull-out. They fear it could result in a Taliban takeover, which would suppress women for decades. Despite Nato’s failings, 72% of Afghan women say their lives

Elton John and David Furnish’s son Zachary is not an ‘issue’ Peter Tatchell feels strongly about This is actually headline news. “Man has no opinion“. O Tempora….etc.

Peter Tatchell declines to speak out in defence of Sir Elton John and David Furnish after criticism of their 'surrogacy arrangement'

Campaigners for equal rights for homosexuals will launch an attempt to overturn England's "discriminatory" marriage laws at the European Court of Human Rights today.