ONS analysis also shows LGB+ people more likely to die from drug overdoses and alcohol-related disease LGB+ people are much more likely to die by taking their own lives, drug overdoses and alcohol-related disease than their straight counterparts, the first official figures of their kind show. The 2021 census in England and Wales asked people aged 16 or over about their sexual orientation for the first time. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has now analysed differences in causes of mortality from March 2021 to November 2024. The ONS research uses the acronym '“LGB+” rather than “LGBTQ+”. Continue reading...

Four out of five councils controlled by party have proposed 5% council tax rises, the maximum permitted by law Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has been accused of “betraying” election promises to cut council tax after several councils it controls said they planned to increase rates close to the maximum allowed. They include Kent county council – the party’s flagship local authority and one viewed by it as the “shop window” for what a Reform-led government would look like – which has proposed an increase of 3.99%. Continue reading...

Greene gives lengthy interview with New York Times days before stepping down as congresswoman for Georgia Marjorie Taylor Greene, now just days away from stepping down as a congresswoman for Georgia, has said in her latest mea culpa interview that she “was just so naive” for believing that Donald Trump was a man of the people. In a lengthy interview with the New York Times that examines her break with the president after years of devotion, Greene explained that a series of minor ruptures with the president culminated in a total breach after conservative influencer Charlie Kirk was killed in September. Continue reading...

La sentencia también confirma la agravante de discriminación por motivo de orientación sexual a Diego M., y rechaza que pueda aplicarse la atenuante de haberse cometido el hecho bajo la influencia de ...