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

Onto the afternoon session of conference. Cath Elliot opened this afternoons session and first up we heard from Rachel Reeves MP who said cuts are going to hit women 3x harder than men.Rachel went on to say that public sector workers are paying for a recession that they did not cause. We did not vote for this and we will not stand for it.Now back onto the group debate on effects of cuts on women.M...

So we get this description of Ms. Trimingham: All changed when Vicky learned that her husband was having an affair with Carina Trimingham, his sometime press aide and a Doc-Martens-wearing former lesbian. Oh, Chris, Chris. Hell is a rather cosy, cheerful place compared to the wrath of a wife whose man runs off with a

This year the TUC are putting on a huge celebration forInternational Women’sDay on Monday March 8th. The show begins at 7pm, the venue is Congress Centre, 23-28 Great Russell Street, London WC1 . Featuring comedy from Josie Long described by The Guardian as ‘ a figurehead for a new way of doing things in alternative comedy’

A massive extension of maternity leave across Europe was last night voted for by the Womens’ Rights Committee of the European Parliament to make it compulsory for employers to pay mothers for a minimum of 20 weeks on full pay. You couldn’t find a better way to do it really. Increase the

There was a feeling of déjà vu in the Parliament yesterday (23 February) as the Womens' Rights Committee backed a report by Portuguese Socialist MEP Edite Estrela to increase minimum compulsory EU maternity leave to 20 weeks. In June last year, a coalition of centre-right and liberal MEPs had already rejected Estrela's plans in a June vote in Strasbourg. Estrela does not beli...

So, Nadine Dorries, who wants to interfere with womens bodies and say what women can and can’t do with them when it has nothing to do with her, doesn’t like being told what she can and can’t do with her body… I applaud the society of Chiropodists for pointing out to me the dangers of this;

Obama’s speech to the ‘Muslim world’ in Egypt was full of necessary fictions. But more substantively it set out what Obama sees as seven areas where progress must be made if tensions are to be eased: the fight against violent extremism, Israel / Palestine, Iran’s nuclear ambition, democracy, religious freedom, womens’ rights and economic development. Missing from the ...

The branch will be holding a meeting for women members on Wednesday May 27th 12-2 in the Antechamber (room 15) of the Town Hall. A light lunch will be provided. Nick Venedi Branch...

Iain Dale has printed Damien Green's wife's top ten tips what to do if your house is seached by the Police. WTF has this country come to that this is now treated as something normal, I accept that this is done in a self deprecating post modern manner, but what the Hell is going on here. Is nobody angry in the Tory Party that an innocent man and his family have been treated like this ? Is...