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DeSmog Lord Peter Lilley has been proposed as a member of a new parliamentary environmental committee. Credit: Roger Harris CC BY 3.0 A Conservative peer who was until last year a trustee of the UK’s most prominent climate science denial group is set to be appointed to a parliamentary committee tasked with overseeing the UK government’s climate policy. Lord Peter Lilley, who has disputed mainstream climate science and was one of just five MPs to oppose the UK’s climate change act in 2008, is listed alongside 12 other peers proposed as members of the new environment and climate change committee (ECCC), due to be formally appointed next week. ....
Baroness Young: The APPG on Ethics and Sustainability in Fashion started in 2009. I started it up as a consequence of having discussions with a number ....
Activists demanding change at an OutRage! demonstration in London in 1995. (Steve Eason/Hulton Archive/Getty) It is 20 years today since the age of consent was finally equalised in the UK after a bruising, years-long campaign from LGBT+ activists. Today, queer people enjoy many of the same rights as their straight counterparts in the UK – but that wasn’t always the case. Homosexuality was illegal in all circumstances up until 1967, and same-sex marriage was once just a distant dream. Among the many legal hurdles queer people had to overcome was the battle to equalise the age of consent. Gay and bisexual men had been governed by a separate age of consent for decades, pushing them further into the shadows in the process. ....