Monday, 2 July 2012

Honours: I'm A Lady! etc etc

The civil partners of homosexual knights and peers could be granted formal titles in line with married couples, under proposed reforms of the honours system. 
The plans, to be debated in the Commons, would see individuals including Sir Elton John’s civil partner David Furnish being formally recognised.
Currently, only wives are granted permission to use a formal title once their husbands become knights or peers, automatically receiving the title of lady.
However, the husbands of women who are honoured with the title of dame are not granted any additional status, with civil partners also being ignored.
MPs have now been asked to consider reassessing the honours system to include gay partners, with the issue due to be raised in Parliament this week... 

The Daily Telegraph.
Let's make inequality more equal!
Without a shred of irony the Tory MP who's behind this, Oliver Colville, says; “The current system is uneven and rather outdated."
Of course, being a Private Member's Bill the chances of this becoming law are close to zero... 

  Much media today have picked up on an article Elton John has put his name to in The Guardian on Ukraine's Section 28-style law. He bigs up the Kaleidoscope Trust - can anyone tell me what they've actually done?

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