The new Labour government has inherited a country that feels “stuck”, and has done for many years. Economic growth has flatlined. Infrastructure projects can’t seem to get off the ground, public services don’t work, and costs of living keep going up and up and up. While tackling this stagnation will be difficult, there are a […]
The childcare system in the UK seems to be beset with problems. Barely a day goes by without a news story about the high costs of pre-school care, or its ridiculously long waiting lists. Similarly, nurseries all over the country are going out of business, or being bought up by private equity. But as I […]
At the end of July, Labour announced it was finally dropping its proposal to reform the Gender Recognition Act to allow individuals to ‘self-identify’ their legal sex via statutory declaration. This would have enabled any adult to be legally recognised as a member of the opposite sex if they requested it. Needless to say, there […]
What is a woman? In an era where many seem to view gender and sex as interchangeable, what was once a straightforward question has become anything but. After being asked for advice by Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch, the Equality and Human Rights Commission recently published a letter suggesting that ‘on balance’ the Equality Act should […]
Last week, the Law Commission published a set of recommendations for reforming the law surrounding surrogacy in the UK. The most striking of these is that the intended parents of a baby born through surrogacy should be the legal parents from the moment of birth. Currently the woman who gives birth is always by default […]
