Media Comment and Reports – #ADateToCelebrate – First mixed-sex civil partnerships

TV Coverage

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000ctfq/bbc-news-at-ten-31122019

https://www.channel4.com/news/couple-who-fought-to-change-law-among-uks-first-mixed-sex-civil-partners

https://home.bt.com/news/uk-news/couples-make-history-in-first-mixed-sex-civil-partnerships-11364421839404

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFs2Rh9712w

https://www.itv.com/news/2019-12-31/couples-make-history-in-first-mixed-sex-civil-partnerships/

Radio Coverage

Woman’s Hour – starts at 10:00

BB World Service

BBC 5 Live 2:18 Paul Livingston & Julia Shaw

Press/Web Coverage

The Independent: First mixed-sex civil partnerships

The Independent: What are civil partnerships?

The Guardian: Meet the first couples embracing mixed-sex civil partnerships

The Guardian: Couple who won battle register partnership

The Times: A civil partnership for couple who bridled at marriage

BBC: How we are celebrating getting ‘not’ married

BBC: ‘We wanted to find a different way’

The Standard: Couples make history

The Mail: Mixed sex-couple enter ‘more modern’ relationship

FT: UK law change opens door 

Media Comment and Reports – December 2nd – mixed-sex couples able to give notice

Martin Loat on the Today Programme 2:56:14

The Guardian How to get hitched like a feminist

INews – Rebecca Steinfeld Opinion

The Standard – Charles Keidan/Rebecca Steinfeld Opinion

Daily Mail News Article

Independent – Everything you need to know about civil partnerships

Cosmopolitan – What is a civil partnership?

The Telegraph: I can say I don’t

Media Comment and Reports – Consultation on Conversion of Marriage to Civil Partnership

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/something-new-turn-your-marriage-into-a-civil-union-v0jxk8n2n

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7230839/Married-couples-allowed-convert-relationship-civil-partnership.html

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jul/10/heterosexual-couples-may-be-allowed-to-convert-marriages-to-civil-unions

Media Comment and Reports regarding the Scottish Government decision

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/civil-partnerships-to-be-made-available-for-all-couples-brt8ns038

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-48763933

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/17728886.civil-partnerships-to-be-opened-up-to-heterosexual-couples-under-new-rules/

https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/heterosexual-couples-promised-equal-access-to-civil-partnerships-1-4954191

Media Comment and Reports regarding the Private Members Bill

://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/civil-partnerships-bill-finally-now-can-have-ceremony-dreams/

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tax/news/opposite-sex-couples-granted-right-civil-partnerships-190k/

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/civil-partnerships-for-opposite-sex-couples-one-step-closer_uk_5c8ba27de4b03e83bdbff617

http://chronicle.gi/2019/01/peers-back-move-extend-civil-partnerships-opposite-sex-couples/

https://news.sky.com/story/government-urged-to-deliver-promise-of-heterosexual-civil-partnerships-11614178

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/legalising-civil-partnerships-for-all-will-ensure-the-law-reflects-britain-today-shz3s79vs

Media Comment and Reports following win in the Supreme Court in June 2018

The Times

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/civil-partnerships-youve-lost-minister-let-us-be-partners-in-love-and-law-3t3zql0kg

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/victory-for-mixed-sex-couple-in-civil-partnership-battle-z5hwnv7rb

The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/jun/27/uk-ban-on-heterosexual-civil-partnerships-ruled-discriminatory

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/01/heterosexual-civil-partnerships-david-mitchell-comment

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/jul/08/new-ways-to-say-i-love-you-without-slavery-and-homophobia

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/27/civil-partnerships-ruling-move-on-from-marriage

The Standard

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/heterosexual-couple-win-supreme-court-battle-over-right-to-be-granted-civil-partnership-a3873111.html

https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/letters/the-reader-civil-partnerships-for-all-is-the-only-fair-way-forward-a3875366.html

https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/evening-standard-comment-two-views-of-freedom-from-the-tory-thinkers-supreme-court-right-on-civil-a3873271.html

INewspaper

https://inews.co.uk/opinion/if-marriage-taught-me-anything-its-that-we-dont-need-to-do-it/

FT

https://www.ft.com/content/178fee64-79ed-11e8-8e67-1e1a0846c475

https://www.ftadviser.com/pensions/2018/06/27/court-ruling-on-civil-partnerships-to-impact-pensions/

New Stateman

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/feminism/2018/06/supreme-court-civil-partnerships-ruling-isn-t-just-about-straight-couples

Telegraph

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/06/27/heterosexual-couples-could-able-have-civil-partnerships-supreme/

Independant

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/civil-partnerships-heterosexual-couples-supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-lgbt-a8418871.html

TV Coverage

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44627990

https://news.sky.com/story/court-victory-for-heterosexual-couple-in-battle-to-have-civil-partnership-11418375

http://www.itv.com/news/2018-06-27/supreme-court-victory-for-heterosexual-couple-in-civil-partnership-fight/

Web News

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/civil-partnership-battle-supreme-court_uk_5b334ccce4b0b5e692f2a16e

https://www.thefword.org.uk/2018/07/equal-civil-partnerships-are-the-fair-and-sensible-way-forward/

https://ukhumanrightsblog.com/2018/06/28/equality-wont-wait-supreme-court-rules-in-equal-civil-partnership/

https://www.stonewall.org.uk/our-work/blog/abolishing-civil-partnerships-not-option

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a21962979/heterosexual-couple-win-right-civil-partnership/

https://www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk/udland/heteroseksuelt-britisk-par-kaemper-indgaa-civilt-partnerskab-aegteskabet-har-aldrig-vaeret