religious discrimination claim by hairdresser

A muslim hairdresser is suing a salon who refused her employment on the basis of her refusal to uncover her head. See the story in the Standard here. Not wishing to be flippant about discrimination - but frankly, the barnets of most hairdressers I have ever seen are the primary source of my complete distrust of the whole [...]

I HATE MEN (allegedly)

Actually I quite like them. They are very useful. I am married to one and he has been put to work cleaning the house as I type…But I have discovered that these men types are not all as loveable as him upstairs: I came across a rather unpleasant cluster of websites today whose focus is [...]

Research on Children

interesting: ESRC Research Programme on Children Briefing Documents.

Magistrate’s Religious Discrimination Claim Rejected by EAT

The EAT has rejected Mr McClintock’s appeal in this case. More detail than was previously available from press reports is apparent from the judgment, in summary: Mr McClintock’s strongly held view was that the question of allowing same sex couples to adopt children had not been sufficiently researched and tested and that by making it [...]

We’re all searching for something…

Whilst trying to establish whether or not any exotic gentlemen were happening upon my blog in a quest for an eligible wife by browsing through the log of google searches which have pointed people to pink tape (see familylore) and spurred on by an umprompted email asking me out for a date purely on the strength of [...]