A former neo-Nazi selected by the Conservatives to fight a council election next year has pulled out after a backlash against his candidacy. Joshua Bonehill-Paine was convicted of racially harassing Jewish former Labour MP Luciana Berger in 2016, while already serving a separate jail sentence for sharing antisemitic posts. Tory leader Kemi Badenoch had defended…
Karen Newman, vice president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, criticised the move, saying “it beggars belief”. She said: “We have contacted the Conservative Party to set out our concerns and call on them to rescind his selection and review their vetting processes.” Liberal Democrat MP Adam Dance, whose Yeovil constituency includes Crewkerne,…
A Chicago priest known for his longtime social justice ministry has been placed on leave, following an abuse allegation for an incident said to have taken place some three decades ago. In a July 11 letter, Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago informed the archdiocese’s Faith Community of St. Sabina that senior pastor Fr. Michael Pfleger had been…
Through the open windows behind Beeban Kidron drifts the unmistakable sound of children playing. Her north London office is sandwiched between a school and a nursery, and the occasional playground shriek functions as an aural reminder of what we’re here to discuss: the safety and happiness of young people, growing up in an age of screens. Though…
Maureen Duffy, author of more than 60 works and a pioneering activist for gay rights and writers’ rights, has died at the age of 92. Duffy was awarded the inaugural £10,000 Royal Society of Literature (RSL) Pioneer prize last year by Bernardine Evaristo, who described her as a “true trailblazer in every sense of the…
Tom Steyer, one of the front-runners in the California governor’s race, has said that he “walked away” from the hedge fund he managed years ago to “focus full-time on fighting climate change.” Mr. Steyer did step down as the chief executive of Farallon Capital, one of the nation’s largest hedge fund firms, in 2012. But…
When Donald Trump returned to office in January last year, one of his first acts was to sign an executive order intended to cut federal funding for any school teaching what the administration defined as “critical race theory”. A raft of other orders mandated the termination of DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) personnel, offices and training across the…
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