“30 years of changing lives”, boasts the National Lottery, three decades on from the day Noel Edmonds hosted the first ever draw. With “seven millionaires every week” and “£49BN for good causes”, it could almost be mistaken for a philanthropic organisation.
On Saturday, the MP for North West Essex took over from Rishi Sunak as leader of the Conservative party. Mrs Badenoch has been a MP since 2017 and has served as Minister for Women and Equalities and Secretary of State for Business and Trade.
by Stephen Grant
In 2002, I got a phone call from a church in south Wales. A man who was presenting as a woman had been attending the church for a year. The fact he’d been attending for a year tells you the church had been good at welcoming him. But he wanted the church to let him use the women’s toilets and attend the women’s Bible study. They said no. So he sued them.
The hands of the clock tick forward, not backward. Time only moves in one direction. By the time you finish this sentence, you’ll already be about five seconds older than when you started it, not five seconds younger. This present life is a one-way ticket in the direction of old age.
A lot has been said over the past few years about freedom of expression – who has the right to say what, is this kind of language acceptable, is that OK to say in public but not online, and what, if any, consequences should there be for offensive speech?
