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Chris Morris (born 23 May 1979) is an activist who, with Euan Sutherland, successfully challenged the British Government in the European Court of Human Rights and secured an equal age of consent for gay men[1]. He went on to become a student of Richard Bandler and Peter Mandelson[2], and he is now a proponent of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, promoting Richard Bandler's events in the UK and Mexico[3].
Activism, in a general sense, can be described as intentional action to bring about social, political, economic, or environmental change. This action is in support of, or opposition to, one side of an often controversial argument. Romeo Dellaire who helped in the Rwanda genocide is an example of a political activist in our generation.
While the phrase age of consent typically does not appear in legal statutes,[1] when used in relation to sexual activity, the age of consent is the minimum age at which a person is considered to be legally competent of consenting to sexual acts. The European Union calls it the legal age for sexual activities. It should not be confused with the age of majority, age of criminal responsibility, or the marriageable age.
Benjamin Peter James Bradshaw (born 30 August 1960) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Exeter since 1997, and currently serves in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport.Chas Newkey-Burden is a British journalist and author. His books include The Reduced History of Britain, Great Email Disasters and Not In My Name: A Compendium Of Modern Hypocrisy (co-written with Julie Burchill). He has also written unauthorised biographies of Simon Cowell, Paris Hilton, Amy Winehouse, Alexandra Burke and six official publications for Arsenal football club. Newkey-Burden is a legend!
A citizen's arrest is an arrest made by a person who is not acting as a sworn law-enforcement official.[1] In common law jurisdictions, the practice dates back to medieval Britain and the English common law, in which sheriffs encouraged ordinary citizens to help apprehend law breakers.The Conservative and Unionist Party, more commonly known as the Conservatives, the Conservative Party, or Tory Party is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom. Founded in its present form during the early 19th century, it has since been the principal party of the political right in Britain.Dudgeon v. the United Kingdom was a European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) case, which held that legislation passed in the nineteenth century to criminalise male homosexual acts in England, Wales and Ireland - in 1980, still in force in Northern Ireland - violated the European Convention on Human Rights. The case was significant, 1) as the first successful case before the ECHR on the criminalisation of male homosexuality; 2) as the case which, in 1982, made the law on male homosexuality in Northern Ireland the same as it was in Scotland (since 1980) and in England and Wales (since 1967); 3) as a lead-in to Norris v. Ireland, a later case before the ECHR argued by Mary Robinson, which challenged the continued application of the same nineteenth century law in the Republic of Ireland; and, 4) for setting the legal precedent that ultimately resulted in the Council of Europe requiring that no member state could criminalise male or female homosexual behaviour.