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Top words of 2016: From ' Brexit ' to 'post-truth' - 'Brexit', 'post-truth', 'surreal', 'xenophobia' and 'paranoid' reflected the developments of the year as these terms were adopted or used for a recognisable phenomenon or experience and were adjudged the top words of 2016 by various dictionaries. Oxford Dictionaries named as its word of the year 'post-truth' — an adjective defined as 'relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief'.

The failures of capitalism have led to Brexit and a Donald Trump presidency - What chance does this vision have in the age of Trump and Brexit ? Mazzucato shares her view. This post originally appeared on the Institute for New ...

French town to get ' Brexit street' to pay 'tribute to the sovereign British people' says Front National ... - A French town is to christen one of its streets "rue du Brexit " in a move its far-Right Front National mayor says is to "pay tribute to the sovereign British ...

Scottish teachers take 500000 days off for mental health reasons in three years - Scottish teachers have taken almost 500,000 days off for mental health reasons in the last three years, according to new figures obtained by the ...

Heart and lung patients treated for mental health -  Mental health treatment will be offered to 30,000 people with long-term physical problems in a new NHS initiative unveiled today. Therapists will be ...

Teachers lose more days to mental illness - The number of days teachers take off work due to mental health reasons in ... administration to have a ministerial post dedicated to mental health . ... and exam systems, with similar concerns also being raised elsewhere in the UK .

Labour peer slammed over happiness study that says poverty not as important as failed relationships - Lord Layard's study pointed out that as UK average incomes have increased, ... The original study states that relative poverty is more important than ...

No One Should Have No One campaign - Figures reveal that 1.2 million older people in the UK are chronically lonely while around 50,000 older people in Scotland will have spent Christmas ...

Miners and LGBT activists who inspired hit film Pride reunite - Miners and LGBT activists who inspired hit film Pride reunite. Real life figures behind the Bafta-winning comedy come together for the first time since ...

New subway station has public art rarely seen: A gay couple -  The sight of two men holding hands is far from uncommon, but a mural of two men doing just that is showing up in an unusual ...

Gay rights groups brave abuse, violence to fight HIV in Cameroon - he asks, prompting laughter from his peers at the group discussion held by Alcondoms, an organisation promoting the rights and health of lesbian, gay  ...

Richard Hammond: 'Ice cream is gay ' remark causes Grand Tour backlash - Former Top Gear host Richard Hammond has ignited controversy over alleged homophobic comments made during the latest episode of The Grand ...

George Michael was a defiant gay icon. His memory must not be sanitised - Like many gay men, coming to terms with his sexuality was a fraught ... According to the British Social Attitudes survey, in the year Michael came out ...

The 15 LGBTI moments we're hoping for in 2017 - Donald Trump will become President of the United States on 20 January 2017. He intends to repeal President Obama’s Executive Orders. This will presumably include the one protecting US federal LGBT employees from discrimination at work.

Five wins for LGBTI rights in 2016 - The fight to change policies and laws to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex ( LGBTI ) people worldwide continued in 2016.

Start-ups, LGBTI list and tips for success: Best of BOSS Magazine 2016 - Head of Macquarie Asset Management Shemara Wikramanayake is not resting on her laurels. David Rowe. This year BOSS Magazine profiled some ...

Obama: I was hurt that LGBT activists didn't trust me at first - President Obama has reflected on his LGBT rights record during his Presidency – admitting he felt hurt by protests early on. Though Obama was ...

Brexit, Trump and the countries that legalised homosexuality in 2016 - Will the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights survive Brexit in the UK ? That Charter is the only human rights document to protect expressly LGBT people.

College professor compares LGBT students to Gestapo - Dr. Niall McCrae, a mental health lecturer at King's College in London UK , published a controversial article he wrote with Reverend Jules Gomes on ...

LGBT individuals more likely to be incarcerated -  Meyer and colleagues drew data from the 2011-2012 National Inmate Survey, which interviewed a representative sample of people in U.S. prisons and jails. Their analysis found that rates of incarceration for lesbian, gay and bisexual people were 1,882 per 100,000. That is more than three times the “already high” incarceration rate of 612 per 100,000 U.S. population, the authors write in the American Journal of Public Health. 

Report calls for better legal protection of LGBT teachers - A new report from the Equalities and Human Rights Commission has urged for better protection of LGBT teachers who face unfair dismissal.

A rare glimpse into Cuba's LGBT community - While in the UK we often applaud ourselves for our progressive thinking, LGBT communities, especially in Cuba still suffer at the hands of outdated ...

Fans pay tribute as pop superstar dies aged 53 - The singer died peacefully at home, his family said on Sunday night. "It is with great sadness that we can confirm our beloved son, brother and friend George passed away peacefully at home over the Christmas period," Michael's family said in a statement released by Thames Valley Police.

The Turkish State of Emergency and LGBT+ Kurds - For example, just the " LGBTI individuals have rights" sentence becomes a luxury, ... In fact, what you try to say is that LGBTI individuals live through the ...