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Opinion: Trans Athletes Competing in the Olympics Is Progress. But It’s Not Enough

by Jessy Parker Humphreys

This year's Olympics will feature the first-ever out trans competitors. But that doesn't mean it isn't continuing to exclude athletes based on their gender.

Elin McCready and her wife, Midori Morita-McCready, standing side-by-side in a street in Japan.

Opinion: I’m a Trans Woman Suing the Japanese Government. If I Win, I’ll Be in the Country’s First Same-Sex Marriage

by Elin McCready

A historic court case is seeking to force Japan to live up to the Olympic values it’s planning to cash in on this summer.

Live: The Coronavirus Pandemic Is Not Over

While it may seem the Covid-19 pandemic in Britain is ending, this week saw global case levels higher than ever before. We speak to Deepti Gurdasani about the ongoing global coronavirus crisis.

Is It Time to Take the ‘Great’ out of Great Britain?

by Alice McCool

From Brexit to the Olympics, the strange idea that Great Britain is destined (or entitled) to greatness by virtue of its name persists.

4 Lessons We Should Learn From the Focus E15 Mothers

by Tom Gillespie

While 20,000 are waiting to be housed in the London Borough of Newham, 600 homes stand empty on one estate alone. Rid of tenants and put up for sale, Labour-run Newham Council has used the rising land prices of the area around the Olympic Park to cash in while thousands go without homes. The Focus E15 Mothers campaign is attempting to turn the tide in Newham and beyond by highlighting the stark injustice of London's housing crisis.

Focus E15 Mothers: Meet the Carpenters Estate’s Newest Occupiers

by Oscar Webb

Since launching in response to the closure of a hostel-based mother and baby unit in October 2013, the Focus E15 Mothers campaign has gone from strength to strength, from a thousands-strong petition to keep the families in Newham, East London, to holding a series of occupations and forcing Newham Council to find them homes. On 21 September the group held a family fun day on the Carpenters estate which culminated in a new occupation.