Yorkshire Bylines

1 week ago | yorkshirebylines.co.uk | Ann Moody

Following his party’s success in local council elections, Nigel Farage delivered a stark warning to public sector workers in his victory speech in Durham – those working on climate change, diversity initiatives (DEI) or simply from home, needed to “seek alternative careers very, very quickly”. With no legal powers to back up this threat, it was a performative but very deliberate act. In December last year, Resolute 1850 Ltd was incorporated in the UK.

1 week ago | yorkshirebylines.co.uk | Andy Brown

Now that the dust has settled on the local election results, it feels like a good time to attempt a realistic assessment of their meaning. There are plenty of ways of looking at these results that don’t look quite so bad as we first thought, but here’s the spoiler alert – those ways all involve an element of self-delusion. That is a dangerous pastime right now.

1 week ago | yorkshirebylines.co.uk | Pam Jarvis

Childcare for working families is one of those perennial problematic societal issues. From the dawn of industrialisation, it has relentlessly picked at the deep fault lines running beneath our increasingly alienated western society. The most acute issues arise in the early years of parenting, particularly caring for children under three.

2 weeks ago | yorkshirebylines.co.uk | Jennie Kermode

In the aftermath of the Supreme Court decision on how the words ‘woman’ should be interpreted in the Equality Act (2010), the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has taken it upon itself to issue guidance on how toilets can be used. This specifies that trans women should use men’s toilets and trans men should use women’s toilets, an argument which of course rests on the basis that all use of public toilets should be segregated by sex.

2 weeks ago | yorkshirebylines.co.uk | Matt Rogan

It’s clear that the political landscape in this country is changing. What remains the same is that our communities, day-in day-out, face many challenges: be it the basics of how local councils run with the little funding they have, or how we navigate our way through the abhorrent rhetoric we’re seeing used against already vulnerable groups in the media. For the LGBTQ+ community, these challenges appear in various aspects of life: employment, healthcare, housing, and more.