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You can’t be almost equal, any more than you can be slightly pregnant

Yazan: Sara | 21 September 2010 | 3 Comments
Categories: homophobia, human rights

This is the text of the speech I made in the ‘Equal Marriage’ debate at Liberal Democrat conference. It may not be word for word as I delivered it, but it’s pretty much there. Last weekend Matthew and I celebrated our 17th wedding anniversary. We did so in the traditional manner for a Liberal Democrat [...]

Whose life is it anyway?

Yazan: Sara | 25 February 2010 | 1 Comment
Categories: criminal justice, human rights

In the last few years, I have seen three people close to me die after fighting cancer. Two of those people died in their own time, one after a short illness, the other after a much longer fight of several years. The third fought for over 18 months in one of the bravest and least [...]

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