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Women in Pakistan taking computer classes. Photograph: Getty Images
By Asiya Islam - 27 March 14:14

Five ethnic minority writers share their experiences with Asiya Islam.

Sophie Christiansen after being awarded her Paralympic gold medal last year. Pho
By Frances Ryan - 25 March 13:02

Several British medallists could lose much-needed financial support when Iain Duncan Smith's Personal Independence Payment replaces Disability Living Allowance on 8 April.

By Hannah Buchanan - 23 March 12:15

We have to get to a place where the trans population are not pantomime but people.

London buses passing through Trafalgar Square. Photograph: Getty Images
By Peter Tatchell - 22 March 16:38

In a free society there is no right to not be offended, and the right to free speech extends to those with whom we disagree, too.

Look around you - who else is in the room?
By CN Lester - 22 March 14:33

Chances are you won’t be welcome in the world of online feminism? It depends on which part of the world you’re visiting – and what kind of attitude you bring with you.

Photograph: Getty Images.
By Gordon Ramsay - 21 March 18:12

Where the Sun leads, the public follow? Not quite…

HMS Victorious at HM Naval Base Clyde, Scotland. Photograph: Getty Images
By Bruce Kent - 21 March 14:42

Nuclear weapons provide the illusion of security not the reality.

Not everyone is allowed to sit at the Mean Girls' table for lunch.
By Sadie Smith - 21 March 13:38

Ever tried to engage with feminist discussion on the internet? Chances are, you won’t be welcome.

Justin Welby, the new Archbishop of Canterbury. Photograph: Getty Images
By Peter Tatchell - 21 March 10:02

On the occasion of his enthronement as Archbishop of Canterbury.

Khuram Shaik, who died in an attack in Sri Lanka on Christmas Day 2011.
By Simon Danczuk - 19 March 10:08

Travelling to Sri Lanka to try and find out about his constituent's murder, Simon Danczuk learned that when politicians are implicated, justice is kicked into the long grass.

A picture of Saddam Hussein is set on fire by US Marines
By James Rodgers - 19 March 9:49

Ten years on, James Rodgers reflects on the invasion and occupation of Iraq.

New Statesman
By Preston Byrne - 18 March 13:54

The conviction of Bethan Tichborne begs the question: has Britain outlawed the truth?

Joey Staggs as Dr Josef Gregor, the world leading entomologist
By Josh Lowe - 18 March 13:02

Josh Lowe meets Joey Skaggs,the man who prides himself on being able to prank the media over and over again.

Bernard Hopkins in training. Photograph: Getty Images
By Cameron Sharpe - 17 March 11:20

The 48-year-old boxer’s world title win is a triumph for longevity but a death knell for the last link to sport’s last golden age.

Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands. Photograph: Getty Images
By James Dawson - 15 March 13:02

Ayatollah Khomeini, Saddam Hussein and the Assads have all flirted with the 99 per cent electoral margin.

Keir Starmer, Director of Public Prosecutions
By Ally Fogg - 14 March 12:46

The CPS review of false rape allegations doesn't offer any clear answers.

Bedrooms classified as "spare" will result in a loss of housing benefit.
By Frances Ryan - 13 March 11:40

Despite the concessions made by Iain Duncan Smith yesterday, the bedroom tax will still hit thousands of disabled children and adults, and those fleeing domestic abuse, argues Frances Ryan as she speaks to some of the families affected.

New Statesman
By Scott Bryan - 13 March 10:05

The Daily Express doesn’t like The EU.

A picture taken from the southern Israeli Gaza border shows smoke billowing from
By Owen Jones - 12 March 13:01

Owen Jones made the same error as the Telegraph, Mail, Haaretz, Guardian, Sun, Washington Post, Human Rights Watch and Spectator. If Douglas Murray wants that to be addressed, he also knows that Israel could be guilty of committing war crimes. So why the silence?

Chris Brown and Rihanna. Photo: Getty
By Sarah Ditum - 11 March 11:20

The pop star gets criticised for her hypersexual persona - and for returning to the man who abused her. But before you attack her choices, work out what you'd do if someone you actually knew was making the same mistakes.

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By Kelley Temple - 08 March 15:55

We have all been complicit in this everyday sexism, and now it's time we all changed.

Feminist activists protest at Parliament Square for women's rights
By Rosie Rogers - 08 March 13:32

We’re supposed to be the good guys, so let’s get it right on gender equality.

Sanaa's Old City. Photograph: Getty Images
By Belkis Wille - 07 March 15:40

“Nothing is worse than life in a Yemeni prison.”

A moody baboon. Photo: Getty
By Willard Foxton - 07 March 15:31

The heckling experienced by female debaters at Glasgow University Union is an unwelcome reminder of a previous age where personal insults were fair game. And anyone who disagrees is a dickless baboon.

BBC Broadcasting House. Photograph: Getty Images
By Martin Plaut - 07 March 15:11

Welsh and Scottish Gaelic have their own language broadcasts as well as the English output, but communities like British Somalis receive nothing, despite paying the same license fee.

A pug at Crufts in 2011. Photograph: Getty Images
By Mimi Bekhechi - 06 March 15:21

Competitions like Crufts encourage breeders to manipulate dogs' bodies as if they were modelling clay. Even dogs who will never set foot in a show ring suffer because of it.

A cottage. Flickr/markhillary
By Simon Parkin - 06 March 10:57

When Simon Parkin's grandfather moved into a nursing home, his grandmother was left alone in her cold house. Who has it worse, he wonders?

Intervention on FGM is complicated
By Sophie McBain - 06 March 10:23

Campaigners are worried that cuts will mean organisations working with women and children will close down.

Palestinians wait to board a bus in Qalqiliya in the West Bank. Photo: Getty
By Rachel Shabi - 05 March 9:41

Separation and discrimination is a numbing fact of life for Palestinians in the West Bank.

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