David Cameron has said he is in favour of a "modest" reduction in the abortion time limit, just days after his health secretary backed banning termina...
Senior Labour figures including shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper and shadow public health minister Diane Abbott have strongly criticised Jeremy Hun...
Miller, Hunt, May et al have all chosen to talk about women's reproductive rights on the eve of Tory Party conference. This is about politics not medicine. These statements are a deliberate attempt to appeal to that wing of the Tory right which is obsessed with rolling back women's rights over their own bodies.
The call by women's minister Maria Miller to lower the abortion limit to 20 weeks is "anti-women" and could signal the beginning of a right-wing push ...
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An anti-abortion charity that advises the government on sexual health has stirred controversy after pulling a statement on its website that said the c...
A controversial Christian charity has come under fire for teaching school children around England that abortion can lead to infection, holes in the wo...
Andrew Lansley has been accused of chasing headlines and wasting £1m of public money after instigating inspections in every abortion clinic in Englan...
Dimbleby, Paxman, Marr, Snow, you're all total players but nobody else can hold a candle to Andrew Neil when it comes to force-feeding the establishment the medicine it most detests: ridicule. And what majestic jowls.
Singer Leona Lewis has spoken of her pride at performing on home ground to open Radio 1's Hackney Weekend. The 27-year-old showed off her flower po...
Major stars such as Rihanna, Jay-Z and Jack White are preparing to play the BBC's biggest ever free live music event, Radio 1's Hackney Weekend. Ar...
Feminist attitudes in the 1980s which had an ambivalence towards talking about the family as it was seen as a "site of oppression" were a mistake, Lab...
It might only be Monday, but here at Huff Post UK we think Ed Miliband has already taken the crown for tweet of the week. The Labour leader, on his...
The taxpayer is shelling out £9 per view of a Department of Health video aimed at encouraging healthy eating and starring TV chef Ainsley Harriott, t...
The government has been accused of pushing ahead with plans to strip abortion providers of their role in counselling women despite an amendment on the...
A lovely thing happened in the world of UK politics yesterday. That's an odd sentence to write, I admit. Up until yesterday, if the adage "start as you mean to go on" has any bearing to it, then based on events so far, politics in 2012 is due to be a year round serving of uneasy quiche.
Racism, by definition, is advocating or teaching the superiority of one race over another. When talking about this we usually bring up the example of Nazi Germany, which made racism a state practice. But is discussing race or bringing race up when talking about certain issues also racism?
Ultimately what the people want from their politicians is leadership. They dont want crass politicking. They dont want meaningless clichés. They want to be confident that the issues which their politicians are looking at are the ones they are worried about.
Diane has spent her life campaigning for better race relations but now, given that it is not a major issue, she should move on to relations between rich and poor.
"What's this weeks petty irrelevant moral panic we'll all sit around discussing in pubs and on the BBC's Daily Politics show?", I often wake up asking myself.
A curious thing happened to me last Thursday while I was reading Bim Adewunmi's article on The Guardian website. Adewunmi was describing, in a very ...
The first week of January is usually a quiet time for news. But 2012 is different - we have seen the teaching union threatening strikes, Tea Party fav...
Ed Miliband game shows is trending on social networking site twitter after the Labour Leader's tribute to 'Blockbusters' host Bob Holness who has died...
"What is the difference between Angelos Epithemiou and blacking up to poke fun at 'darkies'?" I asked my friends. Various arguments were advanced in response: "It is racist, but in a comically ironic way"; or "the ethnicity is incidental - he is an idiot and a slob that just happens to be of Greek origin".
The furore over Diane Abbott's reckless tweeting during the past 24 hours has once again thrust the relationship between politics and technology back into the spotlight. Throughout modern history, innovations in the way that we communicate with each other have had a profound impact on way that politics is carried out. The emergence of the print media, the telegram, radio and television have all revolutionised the way that politicians operate.
