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Perspectives on civil partnerships and marriages in England and Wales: aspects, attitudes and assessments Date:11 JUN 2021 Introduction This article considers the developments since the turn of the century in the provision of new options for same sex and opposite sex couples to formalise their unions with full legal recognition. The available statistical information on the take-up of same sex civil partnerships and marriages is analysed and evaluated, and an early estimation made of their dissolutions and divorces. The possible implications of recent trends are considered, and a personal appraisal made of prospects for the immediate future. To a lay person, the sequence of introducing civil partnerships and same-sex marriage in England and Wales has been a curious, if not puzzling, progression, perhaps only really understood by the initial opposition to (same sex) civil partnerships, and in particular that they should not be accorded equivalence to marriage. The w ....
I WAS disappointed to discover the composition of the new Conservative cabinet on Southampton City Council following the recent election were all men. But it explains why their main focus for future policies appear to all based around cars such as removing the bus lanes on Bitterne Road West which was funded by the Conservative government to encourage better bus routes, and removing the pedestrian area in Bedford Place/Carlton Place which was also government funded and which has been enjoyed by the local community during the pandemic. The latest idea is to create 1000 car parking spaces on our estates, no doubt at the cost of current green spaces enjoyed by all. ....
The official unemployment figures that have just been published for the last quarter of 2020 reveal the continued economic impact of COVID-19 on Britain’s ethnic minority groups. Among all groups, Black African/Caribbean people fared worst, with unemployment rates reaching 13.8% in the period from October to December 2020. The White unemployment rate has not reached that level since the early 1990s, and was 4.5% in the same period. As you can see in the charts below, unemployment initially held steady for men and women from White and ethnic minority groups in the first full quarter after the March 2020 lockdowns. But there were sizeable increases during summer 2020, with the labour market particularly unwelcoming to ethnic minority workers. ....