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hour as newsday continues straight after hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. women are still fighting for equality all over the world. even in long established democracies like the uk, plenty of evidence suggests that from the workplace to the law courts, there is an awful long way to go. my guest today, baroness helena kennedy, has been trying to loosen the grip of the patriarchy in the british legal system for five decades. is she winning the battles that really matter? baroness helena kennedy, welcome to hardtalk. nice to be here. it s great to have you. you have had a pretty extraordinary legal career spanning some five decades. yes, i know. you used to talk about a system that smelled of the patriarchy, a man s world. do you still see britain s legal system like that today? oh, yes. i mean, i think that we haven t yet managed to remove that power imbalance. it s still there. and, of course, a lot of work has been done and we ve, you know, reformed ce ....
welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. women are still fighting for equality all over the world. even in long established democracies like the uk, plenty of evidence suggests that from the workplace to the law courts, there is an awful long way to go. my guest today, baroness helena kennedy, has been trying to loosen the grip of the patriarchy in the british legal system for five decades. is she winning the battles that really matter? baroness helena kennedy, welcome to hardtalk. nice to be here. it s great to have you. you have had a pretty extraordinary legal career spanning some five decades. yes, i know. you used to talk about a system that smelled of the patriarchy, a man s world. do you still see britain s legal system like that today? oh, yes. i mean, i think that we haven t yet managed to remove that power imbalance. it s still there. and, of course, a lot of work has been done and we ve you know, reformed certain areas of law and we ve seen women in many more ....
six million people were waiting for planned operations and procedures in november. england s isolation period for coronavirus is reduced to five full days, if there are two negative covid test results on days five and six. vaccinated uk travellers will be allowed back to france from tomorrow as the government in paris relaxes restrictions. a rare interference alert is issued by mi5 to parliamentary offices. it warns of political interference activities on behalf of the chinese communist party. a former syrian colonel is found guilty of the torture of thousands of people at a prison in damascus during syria s civil war. the scale of our river pollution. mps call for a step change in efforts to clean up rivers in england. borisjohnson s future as prime minister remains in the balance, despite his apology for attending a drinks party during the first coronavirus lockdown in 2020. some senior conservatives are calling for him to resign. but members of the cabinet have r ....
hello. buckingham palace has announced that with the queen s approval and agreement, all of prince andrew s military titles and royal patronages have been returned. the duke of york is facing a civil lawsuit in new york in which he accused him of having sex with a teenager trafficked by the disgraced financierjeffrey epstein. an accusation he strenously denies. prince andrew has been mostly out of the public eye for the past year but he had retained his honourary military roles with a number of british regiments. let s bring in our correspondent danjohnson he will be defending this case, this civil case as a private citizen? it looks that way. he will no longer be a functioning representative or a working member of the british royal family. what happened today effectively ends his formal role in the well family. he will step back from the honourary positions that he maintains, notjust in army, navy, and air force regimens in the uk but also various commonwealth countries an ....
hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are miatta fahnbulleh, chief executive of the new economics foundation and anne ashworth, property and personal finance commentator. the i leads on the story on all of the front pages the calls from across the house of commons for borisjohnson to resign after he admitted to attending a number 10 bring your own booze lockdown party last year. the metro says despite the prime minister issuing a heartfelt apology, and that he believed he was attending a work event, mps were only angered further with labour leader sir keir starmer saying the public thought the prime minister was lying through his teeth . the ft called it the toughest day of borisjohnson s premiership, with tory mps and the scottish conservatives leader douglas ross admitting they would be submitting letters of no confidence in the prime minister, which could lead to a vote on his leadership. the ma ....