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High-achieving British minority students still struggle to clinch top jobs - In recent months, the low educational attainment of white British boys has gained significant attention. However, when it comes to the transition from ...

Poor white children are the least likely of all ethnic groups in the UK to reach university, damning ... - The study by the Government's Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission found that children from ethnic minorities are far more likely to go to ...

What will next year's ' Brexit moments' be? The key dates for investors in 2017 - While markets fell drastically after the Brexit vote, a similar slump after Donald Trump's election failed to materialise, and the result of the Italian ...

The lesson of Trump and Brexit : a society too complex for its people risks everything - But if you're looking for a grand catch-all theory that ties together Donald Trump, Brexit , and the general sense of a world spinning into chaos, it might ...

Michael Gove defends his pre- Brexit blast on 'experts' as he likens EU exit to English Civil War - TORY Michael Gove yesterday claimed experts are too often treated as “prophets” – as he defended his Brexit blast. The former Justice Secretary was ...

Average age of British passenger trains is 21  - Trains on Britain's railways are 21 years old on average, an investigation by the Press Association has found. It shows the age of British trains is at its ...

 We'll show Britain how much value migrants bring - Being a community musician and teacher, I kept playing music with and for British audiences, including children, older people , and those with mental ...

Carrie Fisher on mental illness - the powerful message she shared just before her death - Fisher explained she'd avoided accepting her own diagnosis of bipolar for four years, but said going to support groups – which she initially hated ...

David Walliams 'played up' to assumption he was gay - Little Britain was a very camp show and Matt [Lucas], who is gay, is actually quite blokeish and he likes things like going to watch Arsenal. “Whereas, I am quite camp and much more, sort of wanting to go out to the ballet and things like that. “So, I mean we’re talking in quite stereotypical terms that is probably not that helpful because everyone’s different, aren’t they?”

George Michael's manager didn't know he was gay as he wrestled with his sexuality during 1988 ... - George Michael was so frightened of being outed as gay during his 1988 Faith tour, he would retreat to his room alone every night and refused to ...

Who does Obama think he is?' Katie Hopkins blasts as Barack says he could BEAT Trump - “If you're a woman you're a victim, if you're black you're a victim, if you're LGBT you're a victim, let's play on the victim status of everyone and try to get ...

The Snowflake Awards: for those who defined the term 'political correctness gone mad' in 2016 - Malia Bouattia shot to notoriety in April, when she was elected as NUS President on a Muslim/ LGBT ticket. The University of Birmingham graduate, ...

5 celebrities who came out as LGBT in 2016 and rocked it! -  Whilst there's clearly still a lot of work to do, it was empowering to see even more famous faces step out and embrace their sexuality publicly, and ...

Raft of anti- LGBT clergy booked for Trump's inauguration - In a statement released yesterday (December 28), the billionaire’s transition team announced a number of religious figures would speak at the event, including Reverend Franklin Graham and Archbishop Timothy Dolan.

Tropical Fruits photographer captures colour of regional Australia's largest LGBTI festival - People have been descending on the northern New South Wales city of Lismore since the festival began 28 years ago, celebrating the local lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender and intersex community. Mustow signed up as the event's official photographer five years ago and has taken an estimated 40,000 photos. "The first time I photographed it, I'd actually never photographed in the dark before," Mustow said.

How the world's LGBTI communities came together after Orlando - The majority of those killed and injured were LGBTI . In the days afterwards, the tragedy led to an outpouring of grief and community vigils across the ...

Ex-boyfriend accused of beating 'Catwoman' Jocelyn Wildenstein turns to transgender model ... - But the 49-year-old looks to have found a new muse in the form of Lauren Foster, a South African-born transgender model and LGBT activist. The pair ...

The Most Inspiring British LGBT People Of 2016 - It was on 19 January 2016, just three days after his husband died suddenly on their honeymoon in Australia, that Marco Bulmer-Rizzi, grief-stricken and in shock, picked up the phone and set in motion a chain of events that would lead to legal and policy change in two countries – all while reigniting the campaign for equal marriage. They were in Adelaide when his husband David Bulmer-Rizzi fell down some stairs late at night, cracking his skull. He died in hospital two days later. The authorities told his widower that because same-sex marriage was not legal in South Australia and because the state did not recognise overseas same-sex marriages, the death certificate would read “never married”. Because Marco Bulmer-Rizzi was not deemed the next of kin, all end-of-life decisions had to be approved by David’s father.

HuffPost Arabi tweeted George Michael had " homosexual tendencies" and was a drug addict - In the 1980s, Michael and his band Wham! had influence and artistic achievements that captivated much of the Middle East . According to the Middle ...

Why Iran's Mullahs Bless Sex Reassignment - It was the winter of 2014, and Sorena was just 17 years old. She lived with her family in Shiraz, a city of 1.5 million people in southwest Iran. Sorena had been to consult the mullahs before as they dispensed advice from tables in the city park, mostly about how to reconcile the beliefs of her mother — who belonged to Iran’s minority Sunni sect — with the teachings of Shia Islam, the faith of her father, and Iran’s official religion.

Brazilians protest street vendor's death - About 50 people have protested in Sao Paulo against homophobia after a street vendor was fatally beaten at a metro station while trying to defend a ...

In Massachusetts, Repeating History, Hoping For Redemption - I still remember how I felt when my neighbor warned me about the homophobic graffiti someone had scrawled in the hallway of my apartment. It was ...

Google's Matt Brittin admits firm needs to work harder to remove illegal content - A Google director has said the internet giant has more to do to tackle illegal content. Matt Brittin urged people to make their own judgements should ...

Hot British Rowers Strip Naked In The Middle Of London To Fight Homophobia - Even through the most unlawfully cold and frigid temperatures, the men of England's Warwick Rowers know exactly how to bring the heat. The sports ...

Watch George Michael's candid response to Oprah's question about his sexuality in 2004 - "I'm not really interested in selling records to people who are homophobic ." He goes on, referring to his then-partner Kenny Goss when he says, "I live ...