Tom Hayes

Labour Councillor for St Clement’s on Oxford City Council. Tweeting at @CllrTomHayes on politics, energy, climate change, and foreign policy.

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Putin’s Russia isn’t very 2014. It isn’t very 1936 either.

We should honour the life of Vlad Tornovoi by standing up for gay rights in Russia.

Tom Hayes4 min read

How Sochi Corporate Sponsors Can Promote Gay Equality

Brand advertising helps you smell and look like an Olympian, so you don’t have to bother training to become one. But it also paints and imagines a world where people know what it feels like to be free.

Tom Hayes4 min read

Putin’s Russia isn’t very 2014. It isn’t very 1936 either.

We should honour the life of Vlad Tornovoi by standing up for gay rights in Russia.

Tom Hayes4 min read

Spinning the same old record isn’t music to cyclists’ ears

Following the announcement by the Prime Minister of money for cycling in England, I look at whether it represents real new money and just how deep his Government’s commitment to cycling really is.

Tom Hayes5 min read

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Critics claim that Bay Area tech shuttles’ environmental benefits are overstated. They’re wrong

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From Russia, Without Love

In a few days I went from gay marriage celebrations in San Francisco to Russia, where my LGBT comrades face a sad, bigoted reality that the rest of the world is only now discovering.

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