While celebrities and brands are championing trans issues in the public eye, fear and discrimination are still prevalent in the lives of many transgender individuals. Through her project Nail Transphobia, Charlie Craggs is fighting prejudice through free manicures and a friendly chat.

Door-to-door canvassers are broadly considered an irritation, but research shows they could feed genuine social change. In a new study, ten-minute conversations with people on their doorsteps spurred a greater drop in transphobia among participants than in US homophobia between 1998 and 2012.

Studies show that our ability to empathise has greatly diminished over the last 30 years. It’s due in part to the uptake of smartphones and social media – we’re all too busy thinking about ourselves. But while it might be part of the problem, could technology also be used to make us more empathetic?

Between the US presidential election and the EU referendum, the disparity between young and old is as pronounced as ever. 'Any man who is under 30, and not a liberal, has no heart; any man who is over 30, and not a conservative, has no brains', goes the maxim. And research seems to support it.