Blog posts by Louise Livesey: 2006
More on the Tories Family Policy document
By Louise Livesey | 11 December 2006, 10:16
Not surprisingly the controversy arising from this relates to the exclusion of the most marginal of family groups. First off was Iain Duncan-Smiths comments that gay parents did even come “on the radar” when talking about families. It seems because…
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Sir Mike Jackson - soliders deserve unreserved support
By Louise Livesey | 7 December 2006, 10:38
Last night in the Richard Dimbleby Lecture Sir Mike Jackson argued that soldiers deserved the public’s unreserved support in the work that they do. Now arguments about the wrongness of the Iraq invasion aside I find this very difficult as…
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Proof that activism can work…
By Louise Livesey | 22 August 2006, 13:31
Proof, if it be needed, that activism still works as Irish feminist begin an assault on the la-pdancing industry where it’ll really hurt them - their pockets. As reported here almost fifty companies have already signed a charter vowing not…
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Lesbian Couple Denied Right to Have Their Marriage Recognised in UK
By Louise Livesey | 31 July 2006, 13:20
Sue Wilkinson and Celia Kitzinger have been denied the right to have their marriage in Canada recognised in the UK. . Whilst this ending to the High Court case was pretty predictable the comments made in the judgement are rather…
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Wear Burqa, lose benefits
By Louise Livesey | 19 April 2006, 09:54
It has now been suggested in Holland that women wearing the Burqa who can’t find work should lose the right to unemployment benefits. So yet again women are placed in a position of having to chose between their right to…
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By Louise Livesey | 2 March 2006, 10:01
OK so Ruth Kelly has announced another tranche of measures to prevent those with records of sexual violence from working with young people and vulnerable adults. Whilst there is a long overdue need to tighten the legislation, impose fines on…
Linda Smith, comedian, dies aged 48
By Louise Livesey | 2 March 2006, 09:56
I am sure most people have heard already that Linda Smith died on Wednesday after a long battle with Ovarian Cancer. Tributes here and here. Its a sad loss of a great comic mind who maintained her political activism to…
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Eminem remarries….the same woman
By Louise Livesey | 17 January 2006, 17:08
Eminem has remarried his ex-wife, Kim Mathers. Why should we care? Because this is the same Kim Mather’s he represented so crudely in his songs. Why would a woman return to such a man (jokes about his money aside)? One…
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Government Publish Prostitution Consultation Results
By Louise Livesey | 17 January 2006, 16:59
The Government have at last published the strategy in response to their recent “Paying the Price” consultation on prostitution. In they say they will not be establishing toleration zones for street prostitution, the report states that the government will “reject…
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