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Labou stanley cup r needs to talk about women. If I say that, your thoughts probably jump to one particular debate. You may be thinking about JK Rowling, you may be thinking about David Tennant. You are t botella stanley hinking about how the next government is going to respond to the tension between those who recognise the reality of biological sex, and those who want to ensure that trans people can live comfortably in their chosen gender.For sure, that is a discussio stanley cup n that Labour cannot sidestep. The next government needs to have the courage to clarify the law on sex and gender and help to steer better ways through areas where rights conflict.But this is far from the only conversation Labour needs to have about, or with, women. Its not the only area where courage is required. These 14 grinding years of Conservative rule have been devastating for too many women.For a start, we need to talk more about poverty. Child poverty has figured a bit in this election campaign. But lets not gloss over the link between child poverty and the poverty of their mothers. One charity said recently that three in four of those using its food banks are women. Women are poorer than men, they work in lower-paid roles, or for fewer hours, or they are not in paid jobs at all 鈥?a quarter of women are economically inactive .Being economically inactive does not mean that women are not working harder than ever. So this also needs to be a conversation about care. As public services have been systematically starved of funds over the Meoh Jeremy Clarkson and BBC sued for racial discrimination by Top Gear producer
On 27 January, your MEP has the chance to hear the facts about copyright term-extension for sound recordings in the EU. Under the terms of a proposal from Charlie McCreevy, the EU s commissioner for the internal market and services, the EU would extend the term of copyright on existing sound recordings from 50 to 95 years.If you read this column, you ll know why this is a bad idea. Independent and government experts from the UK and the EU agree: extending copyright will do little to remunerate recording artists the majority of artists will receive between 鈧?.26 and 鈧?6.79 each year for the first decade , but it will result in a gigantic windfall for a few multinational companies, taking 拢150m from the pockets of Europeans and transferring it to the record labels 鈥?after a tiny slice is shaved off for poor artists.That s the monetary cost; but there s also an artistic and cultural cost. The songs that have gone around our heads and our lives for 50 years are about to become public property, so that every schoolkid can use them in a project, every DJ can sample them, every teacher, documentarian and fan can rip, mix and burn them to th stanley cup eir heart s content.And there s the cost to our collective memory. An astonishing proportion of 50-year-old music is or stanley usa phaned , with no visible owner. In another 45 years, much of this music is sure to have disappeared forever, never digitised, the las stanley thermos t vinyl copies of it broken, thrown out or lost.Economists, archivists, educators, te
Labou stanley cup r needs to talk about women. If I say that, your thoughts probably jump to one particular debate. You may be thinking about JK Rowling, you may be thinking about David Tennant. You are t botella stanley hinking about how the next government is going to respond to the tension between those who recognise the reality of biological sex, and those who want to ensure that trans people can live comfortably in their chosen gender.For sure, that is a discussio stanley cup n that Labour cannot sidestep. The next government needs to have the courage to clarify the law on sex and gender and help to steer better ways through areas where rights conflict.But this is far from the only conversation Labour needs to have about, or with, women. Its not the only area where courage is required. These 14 grinding years of Conservative rule have been devastating for too many women.For a start, we need to talk more about poverty. Child poverty has figured a bit in this election campaign. But lets not gloss over the link between child poverty and the poverty of their mothers. One charity said recently that three in four of those using its food banks are women. Women are poorer than men, they work in lower-paid roles, or for fewer hours, or they are not in paid jobs at all 鈥?a quarter of women are economically inactive .Being economically inactive does not mean that women are not working harder than ever. So this also needs to be a conversation about care. As public services have been systematically starved of funds over the Meoh Jeremy Clarkson and BBC sued for racial discrimination by Top Gear producer
On 27 January, your MEP has the chance to hear the facts about copyright term-extension for sound recordings in the EU. Under the terms of a proposal from Charlie McCreevy, the EU s commissioner for the internal market and services, the EU would extend the term of copyright on existing sound recordings from 50 to 95 years.If you read this column, you ll know why this is a bad idea. Independent and government experts from the UK and the EU agree: extending copyright will do little to remunerate recording artists the majority of artists will receive between 鈧?.26 and 鈧?6.79 each year for the first decade , but it will result in a gigantic windfall for a few multinational companies, taking 拢150m from the pockets of Europeans and transferring it to the record labels 鈥?after a tiny slice is shaved off for poor artists.That s the monetary cost; but there s also an artistic and cultural cost. The songs that have gone around our heads and our lives for 50 years are about to become public property, so that every schoolkid can use them in a project, every DJ can sample them, every teacher, documentarian and fan can rip, mix and burn them to th stanley cup eir heart s content.And there s the cost to our collective memory. An astonishing proportion of 50-year-old music is or stanley usa phaned , with no visible owner. In another 45 years, much of this music is sure to have disappeared forever, never digitised, the las stanley thermos t vinyl copies of it broken, thrown out or lost.Economists, archivists, educators, te
