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There has been a sea change in public attitudes towards sexuality in the decades since sex between men was decriminalised in Britain in 1967. Recent legal reforms – including the right to civil partnerships – reflect this, and are themselves a reaction to struggles for equality that have been led by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people.

David Miliband, the New Labour foreign secretary, is a liar. He lied over Britain’s role in rendition flights. He lied over the torture detention centre on the British-owned island of Diego Garcia.

The Zionist Federation of Britain, a pro-Israel lobby group, wants to hold an "Israeli Science Day" at the Science Museums in Manchester and London.

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) announced last week that up to 2,300 jobs are to go in Britain.

Agency workers are paid much less than their directly employed counterparts. There are an estimated 1.4 million agency workers in Britain.

The banning of Dutch film maker Geert Wilders from Britain has led to renewed arguments about free speech. Last year Maina van der Zwan from Socialist Worker's Dutch sister organisation examined his Islamophobic film, Fitna, describing it as, "a disgusting piece of racist propaganda which resembles Der Ewige Jude (The Eternal Jew), a film Nazis used in 1940 to 'expose' the Jews of Europe".

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This exhibition tells the stories of black mixed race families in Birmingham in the 1950s and 1960s.

I wasn’t surprised by Carol Thatcher making racist jibes. She is after all the daughter of Margaret Thatcher, who once declared that immigrants were "swamping" Britain.

The slogan "British jobs for British workers" gained widespread notoriety during the recent unofficial strikes by construction workers.

Workers protesting at the Lindsey Oil Refinery in Lincolnshire returned to work on Monday of this week after management promised an additional 102 jobs would be made available to "British" workers.

The European Union (EU) Posted Workers Directive allows foreign contractors to hire staff from overseas for temporary projects, provided they are granted the same legal rights as British workers.