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Celebrates his life and legacy
The activist faces up to two years in prison if found guilty.
An inglorious 12th.
A law student in a Scottish university is facing disciplinary action after saying in an online seminar about transgender issues that women were born with female genitals and that the difference in physical strength between men and women is a fact. Lisa Keogh, a 29-year-old mother of two boys, is in her final year at […]
Although falling just short of securing a majority of seats in the country’s parliamentary elections, Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon has insisted that holding a vote on independence from the UK is the “will of the people”.
The Court of Appeal in Britain has ruled that free speech includes the right to offend, finding that “Freedom only to speak inoffensively is not worth having”. The landmark ruling was handed down in the case of a mother, Kate Scottow, who was arrested in front of her children because she described a trans activist who had […]
Conversations at home that incite hatred must be prosecuted under Scotland’s hate crime law, the Scottish justice secretary has insisted.
A Scottish Hate Crime Bill is being met with an “avalanche” of opposition as judges have now joined police and free-speech campaigners to raise concerns over the controversial proposal. Critics of the Bill say that vague language and a section on “stirring up hate” could be used to stamp down on free speech and criminalise debate. […]
A Scottish church is to sue the City of Edinburgh Council after it cancelled the congregation’s three-day conference because of a keynote speaker’s views on homosexuality and abortion.Â
A new study in the journal Clinical Ethics claims that permitting assisted dying would substantially benefit both those seeking assisted suicide and the public. Two Scottish academics, Dr David Shaw of the Universities of Basel and Maastricht, and Professor Alec Morton of the University of Strathclyde, posit three economic arguments: the cost to terminally-ill patients of a poor quality […]
As you may have noticed, the last three years or so has seen the UK consumed with the ins and outs, the minutiae and meanderings of some little thing called Brexit. Now, it seems as if it has really happened, and the UK has actually left the EU. Of course there is still a long […]
A new pro-family party in Scotland has succeeded in having an explicit drag act cancelled after petitioning the school where he was to perform.Â
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