Paul Shakespeare’s attack on an 18-year-old woman in Cheltenham left her so traumatised she did not tell her familyA man has been jailed for raping a teenage woman more than three decades ago after he was arrested last year for an unconnected crime and…
UK households facing ‘fuel stress’ will treble to 6.3m – thinktank
Middle-income families will also find it hard to cope with new energy cap in April, says thinktankThe number of households suffering from “fuel stress” – those spending at least 10% of their family budgets on energy bills – is set to treble to 6.3m ove…
World’s 10 richest men see their wealth double during Covid pandemic
Oxfam calls for windfall tax as 99% of world population takes a pay cut while top 10 incomes grow by $1bn a dayCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe 10 richest men in the world have seen their global wealth double to $1.5tn (…
ポリコレアフロ自体は全然アリだと思うんだけどさ
旧来のジェンダー観に染まりきっていない若年男性、いると思うけどなぁ。『おかえりアリス』の慧くんの『女性になりたいわけではなく男性を降りた』というセリフを思い出す。 2022/01/14 こういうこと言い出すやつがいるからキショ怖いんだよなあ。 「旧来のジェンダー観に染まりきっていない若年男性」とかいう言い方が…
Ireland to give adopted people access to birth records to end ‘historic wrong’
Minister says proposed law would allow for release of information regardless of parents’ wishesIreland will allow adopted people automatic access to their birth records for the first time under new laws the government hopes will end a “historic wrong”,…
マイケル・サンデルの指摘 「能力主義社会の“勝者”たちが手際よく成果を残したとは言えない」 | 「テクノクラシー化」への警告
理想的な能力主義が実現しても“ダークサイド”はある ──著書『実力も運のうち 能力主義は正義か？』では、私たちが暮らす民主的な社会に取り入れられてきた能力や功績（メリット）という概念が凝結し、それが社会的敬意を根っこから蝕んでいると論じています。 具体的には、能力主義によって「勝者は自分たちの成功をみず…
Covid live: ‘concerning’ rates of Omicron in northern England; two linked to Australian Open leave country
Latest developments as Philippines reports record 26,458 cases and scientist says Omicron variant could become endemic in UKRequiring PCR tests for isolation funds in UK may fail legal test’See all our coronavirus coverageThe north-east and north-west …
Protecting vulnerable from £700 hike in energy bills means hard choices now | Nils Pratley
The options are unattractive but a massively expanded warm homes scheme gets the vote hereIt’s choose your poison time for a government that must know allowing low-income households to suffer the full blast of the scheduled rise in energy bills in Apri…
Family of autistic man plan legal challenge over care conditions
Mother says her 24-year-old son’s care at a hospital in Cheshire is ‘worse than being in prison’The family of an autistic man confined to an apartment and fed through a hatch are planning a legal challenge against his conditions, in a case that will in…
Life rebooted: why ‘pruning’ friends has been so common during the pandemic
People have become ‘more insular and bonding-oriented’ amid Covid, and now many aren’t sure how to start rebuilding their social livesPruning is usually a technique applied to roses in winter, but more recently the gardening term has been cropping up w…