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Police stand amidst rioting in Tottenham, London, in 2011. Civil unrest was spurred by the death of Mark Duggan, who was shot dead by police in an incident that attracted considerable public criticism. The unrest spread to other English cities, and spurred looting.
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FOLLOWING the Premiership win of Scottish football team Rangers FC on 6 March, hundreds of supporters gathered outside the Ibrox Stadium and across the city in celebration. Packed together, climbing on each other’s shoulders and letting off flares, though celebratory in nature the gathering was against the law – breaking lockdown rules and violating social distancing protocols. 28 arrests were made across the city for disorder offences, and the resulting headlines placed fans of the club, the club itself, the Scottish government and the police into a complication of conflict. Police claimed the club didn’t do enough to dissuade the crowds
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson has talked of cutting the BBC down to size, and the licence fee is under attack as never before
This year sees the launch of a new and potentially serious challenge to existing broadcasters: Rupert Murdoch’s News UK is launching a new cable TV news channel. Another cable channel, GB News, backed by £60m ($83m) of capital and fronted by the broadcaster and journalist Andrew Neil, is also about to launch.
Both are targeting disaffected BBC viewers. GB News will be aimed at “the vast number of British people who feel underserved and unheard by their media”. According to the channel’s chief executive, it will be “proudly independent and fearless in tackling the issues people care about”.
It’s been almost 1,000 days since the Tory government pledged to “eradicate” conversion therapy, yet it still hasn’t been banned. This shows LGBTQ+ issues just aren’t prioritised by the government in this country.
Even its own equalities advisor has said the UK government has created a “hostile environment” for LGBTQ+ people.
Jayne Ozanne, a key member of the government’s LGBT+ Advisory Panel, yesterday resigned from her role and accused ministers of being “ignorant” to issues affecting queer people. Following this, two other advisors have also resigned from the panel, ITV reports.
Here’s just some of the LGBTQ+ issues the government still isn’t prioritising:
“These strange times.”
The phrase appeared last March, much as a wildflower might: with sudden, almost gobsmacked abandon, born in preparation of its own demise.
Soon it came in many hues. In corporations’ hushed advertisements, saying times were “uncertain,” a temporary rest stop on the road back to growth. Columnists and cable news anchors preferred “unprecedented,” novelty being the content mill’s most efficient fuel. “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” fans (and perhaps other poets) reached for “trying,” albeit in a satirical sense; the nostalgic longed for “the before”; and many of us, rendered inarticulate by the scale and speed of events, were reduced to the broadest of generalities: “in these times.”
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