Revd Joe Haward reflects on how hardliners in the Church are stifling progress on LGBTQ+ rights – but homophobia and transphobia are not confined to evangelical congregations
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A new poll by Omnisis for Byline Times reveals the impact of serial rapist and Met Police officer David Carrick's guilty plea on women's trust in policing
The Justice Secretary’s long and “dangerous” campaign to scrap the Human Rights Act was “pushed forward by parts of the media” smarting from privacy laws
With intense scrutiny on the sending of transgender offenders to women's prisons, Sian Norris reports on the much-ignored safety issue impacting incarcerated women – self harm
Sian Norris speaks to an Iranian refugee about the impact of the Rwanda scheme on people seeking asylum from the repressive regime
John Williams Ntwali joins a list of critics who have died or disappeared in Rwanda
Another week, another case where the Metropolitan Police is accused of failing to take timely action to protect women from a serial rapist. Sian Norris reports
Buried in the High Court judgment which found the Rwanda scheme to be lawful are claims that LGBTQ+ and Middle Eastern asylum seekers have faced discrimination
"It's out of science fiction. How are they going to guess who’s going to be disruptive?” one leading campaigner asked Byline Times
It's not a bad apple, it's a rotting orchard, writes Sian Norris – as a Met police officer admits to being a serial rapist