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Phones should be banned in schools to tackle damage by pornography – MPs told

Smartphones should be banned in schools to tackle the “damage” being done from children watching pornography, MPs have heard. Campaigners told the Commons Women and Equalities Committee that schools should remove phones from children to reduce their ...

10 May 2023 at 18:10

Carol Vorderman in Twitter row with women’s minister over menopause hearing

Carol Vorderman has called on the women’s minister to resign after she could not “be bothered to turn up” to a committee hearing about the menopause – but the politician has accused the TV presenter of not dealing in facts. Maria Caulfield took to ...

23 Mar 2023 at 18:16

Carol Vorderman ‘disgusted’ by women’s minister’s absence from menopause hearing

Carol Vorderman said she is “absolutely disgusted” by the words and actions of two Government ministers as the television presenter appeared before MPs to discuss menopause and the workplace. The former Countdown star said Women’s Minister Maria ...

22 Mar 2023 at 18:30

Sunak says he would not hand honours to relatives in swipe at Johnson

Rishi Sunak said he would not hand honours to family members in a thinly-veiled swipe at Boris Johnson’s reported plans to knight his father. Mr Johnson, who was forced out of Downing Street last September following a series of scandals, is ...

10 Mar 2023 at 18:15

Music festivals safe for women, but ‘always an element of risk’, says minister

Music festivals are safe for women but there will “always be an element of risk”, the media minister has said. Sir John Whittingdale was asked by Caroline Nokes, Conservative chairwoman of the Women and Equalities Committee, during a ...

18 Jul 2023 at 13:00

Abandon plans to detain and send children to Rwanda, MPs tell Government

Any intention to detain children or send them to Rwanda under controversial new migration laws should be abandoned, MPs have warned. The risks of harm to asylum-seeking children outweigh any risk of damaging the Government’s aim of ...

27 Jun 2023 at 11:37

Watchdog ‘seriously concerned’ about Migration Bill’s impact on human rights

The human rights watchdog said it remains seriously concerned about the impact of the Government’s controversial migration laws on vulnerable groups such as children, pregnant women and trafficking victims. The Equality and Human ...

28 Jun 2023 at 13:13

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Music industry is a boys’ club and rigged against women, Annie Mac tells inquiry

Former BBC Radio 1 DJ Annie Macmanus has said women are not booking festivals or being signed to record labels, further perpetuating the music industry as a “boys’ club”. The 45-year-old, known by her stage name Annie Mac, said ...

13 Sept 2023 at 12:40

Sexual health services ‘close to crisis’, experts warn

Experts have warned sexual health services in England are “very close to a crisis” with clinics forced to ration the amount of free condoms they give out. It comes amid a rise in sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in young ...

24 Jan 2024 at 17:40

Music

Musicians sit beside abusers at award shows due to culture of silence, say MPs

Musicians have to sit beside sexual abusers at award ceremonies, MPs have said as they warned that misogyny and discrimination is “endemic” in the industry. A report by the Women and Equalities Committee, released on Tuesday, ...

30 Jan 2024 at 00:01

Government rejects calls from MPs for menopause leave trial

The Government has rejected calls for a large-scale pilot of menopause leave, in a move described as a “missed opportunity” by a Commons committee. Ministers have also resisted a recommendation from the Commons Women and ...

24 Jan 2023 at 06:56

Russell Brand faces further claims as more women reportedly come forward

Comedian and actor Russell Brand is facing further claims after more women have come forward with allegations, it has been reported. “Several women” are said to have contacted The Times and The Sunday Times in the wake ...

18 Sept 2023 at 09:12

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