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Jonathan Cooper

@jonathancoopr

Jonathan Cooper is a barrister at Doughty Street Chambers and is a human rights specialist with experience before English and international courts

<p>Donald Trump and Joe Biden during the first presidential debate in 2020. About 6 in 10 US adults say they are ‘extremely’ or ‘very’ likely to watch the rematch on June 27 </p>
US politics

Most Americans say they can’t look away from Biden-Trump debate

US politics

Trump campaign moves to shore up Mormon support in pivotal states

Healthcare workers move a patient infected with coronavirus from an ambulance to a hospital in Seoul
The Longer Read

Boris Johnson must face the ghosts of viruses past, present and future

Voices

Keir Starmer treatment of me as a gay man proves he'd make a great PM

Around 300,000 people attended the annual Pride parade in Brighton last year
The Longer Read

As we celebrate LGBT+ rights, we must remember those who paved the way

Evidence shows that draconian measures to stop the epidemic has a detrimental effect on numbers
Voices

The Aids crisis can’t end whilst LGBT+ people are denied equality

Voices

The referenda system in the UK is deeply flawed, as Brexit shows

Voices

Has Boris learned nothing since calling me a ‘shirt-lifter’?

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Voices

Faith has long been used to justify anti-LGBT+ discrimination

Voices

Of course Begum should get legal aid – Derry Girls helps explain why

Former foreign secretary will say big corporations have used 'access to unlimited pools' of foreign workers as one way to keep wages down.
Voices

Boris Johnson has impeded LGBT+ rights in Cayman – no longer

Voices

There is a way to topple Theresa May and stop a no-deal Brexit

Will parliament be broken by Brexit, or can it provide the cure?
Politics

Solving Brexit: The constitutional powers and duties of MPs explained

Politics

Solving Brexit: The constitutional powers and duties of MPs explained

Will parliament be broken by Brexit, or can it provide the cure?
Voices

A no-deal Brexit would breach the UK’s own human rights laws

According to a poll of Anglican clergy, as many as 16 per cent are unclear about God
Voices

Our Anglican Christmas has been ruined by the church's LGBT silence

Despite dragging the LGBT+ community through the indignity of referendums, the ECHR has ruled in defence of same-sex civil partnerships
Voices

How the EU could stop referendums becoming a risk to human rights

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Voices

The government is about to drop key LGBT rights protections

Photo: iSTOCK / mrtom-uk
Voices

The government is about to drop key LGBT rights protections

London's annual Pride festival grows bigger every year
Voices

LGBT rights are on the line today in the government's Brexit bill

The Russian state, led by Vladimir Putin, has denied involvement in the poisoning of a former spy
Voices

Russia's disregard for human rights law has been emboldened by Brexit

Paddock's family said they were stunned to learn he was responsible for the deadliest mass shooting in US history
Americas

Las Vegas shooter was 'the king of microaggression', brother says

Members of the Gay Liberation Movement protesting in 1977
Voices

The British state still needs to apologise to the gay community

John Barrowman kisses his male “bride” at a mock Gretna Green during the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony
Comment

Now the Games are over, let’s not forget the persecuted men and

Business

Newmarket hosts the ultimate in gambling on racehorses

Culture

The Inside Track

Letters

Letter: Rights charter remakes politics

Business

Newmarket hosts the ultimate in gambling on racehorses

Culture

The Inside Track

Letters

Letter: Rights charter remakes politics

Voices

LETTER : Democracy falls victim to stalker

Voices

LETTER : Democracy falls victim to stalker

Voices

Letter: Power to people, not judges

Voices

Letters: Constitutional change for a better life

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