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Meanwhile, Camden Council’s cabinet has agreed a report from December to raise its council tax by 5 per cent.
With a huge Labour majority in the council, the hike will go through when the new charge is set next month.
And where is Sir Keir Starmer’s Holborn constituency? Camden.
Surely picket lines are outlawed during lockdown life in Britain
How depressing to see Starmer is carrying on where his predecessors left off by backing strikers. ‘Solidarity with British Gas workers striking against attempts to fire and rehire them on worse terms,’ he tweeted.
At least he’ll be spared the dilemma of whether to join a picket line.
Ofcom chief compares gender-critics to racists
18 Dec 2020
bbc.co.uk/news
Ofcom’s Chief Executive has compared people who disagree with radical gender ideology to “racists” during a discussion about BBC impartiality.
Dame Melanie Dawes suggested to the Commons Culture Select Committee that it is “extremely inappropriate” for those who believe biological sex cannot be changed to be included in TV or radio debates around transgenderism.
She was responding to comments made by SNP MP John Nicolson, a former BBC presenter, who complained that by attempting to bring balance to debates, the BBC was ‘attacking’ trans people.
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Nicolson had asked what could be done to prevent the BBC from “calling in transphobic groups like the so-called LGB Alliance to give a counter argument”.
Tory MP Damian Green. (Getty/ DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP)
Conservative MP Damian Green has suggested challenging JK Rowling’s views on trans rights is the same as calling her an “old-fashioned racist”.
Green, who is a former
Channel 4 News reporter and was Theresa May’s first secretary of state following the 2017 election, made the comments at a hearing of the Commons Culture Select Committee on Tuesday (15 December), during a discussion on coverage of trans issues by the BBC.
When asked about the issue at the hearing, Dame Melanie Dawes, head of UK communications regulator Ofcom, said it was “extremely inappropriate” for broadcasters to seek to “balance” appearances by transgender people with activists from anti-trans pressure groups.