The law on trial shifts is unclear and open to abuse. My PMB would end unfair practices – and ensure workers have the security they deserve, writes Stewart McDonald

Norman Lamb says Britain’s scientists and researchers face “disaster” unless they get urgent clarity over post-Brexit visa rules, funding and collaboration. The chair of the Science and Technology Committee talks to James Millar 

Earlier this week women MPs and peers from all parties gathered in Speaker’s House to discuss the fight for a 50:50 Parliament

A ban on wild animals in circuses has widespread cross-party support. Bringing the law up to date is long overdue, writes Trudy Harrison

Is truth scarcer than it used to be? Claire Foster-Gilbert, Director of the Westminster Abbey Institute, sits down with Geoffrey Lyons to discuss the concept, the Abbey’s role in politics, and the Institute’s latest lecture series

If we cannot get our gender balance right here in Westminster, Rachel Maclean writes, how can we provide leadership to the rest of society?

A century after the first women gained the right to vote, we asked some of the current crop of leading politicians to tell us about the female parliamentarian they most admire from the last 100 years

Willoughby Dickinson was the only MP with a perfect voting record on women’s suffrage. Baroness Anne Jenkin writes about her great grandfather’s legacy – and why there is still much to be done to achieve equal representation

Michelle Gildernew was among the first group of Sinn Féin members to use parliamentary offices at Westminster. Though she refuses to take her seat in the Commons, the Fermanagh and South Tyrone MP insists she is no ‘outcast’. She talks to Nicholas Mairs

Young people will be hardest hit by the government’s approach to Brexit. It is for Theresa May to ensure she doesn’t sacrifice their futures on the altars of ideology, writes Seema Malhotra

Maria Caulfield’s appointment as Conservative vice chair for women raised eyebrows when it was announced by No10 in January. The Lewes MP wants to set the record straight, and outline how politics is about more than just parliament. She talks to Sebastian Whale

From opposition to detention centres to rhetoric on immigration, we know what Labour are against when it comes to home affairs. But what proposals are the party putting forward? Emilio Casalicchio talks to Diane Abbott to find out