Soham Murders: How we keep missing the point
Institutionalised incompetence about sexual abuse freed up Ian Huntley The death of Ian Huntley not only revives the grotesque killing of his victims, best friends…
Parental Alienation: Hope may blow from ill-wind
Mother and son supported in the Royal Courts of Justice Court 33, the Royal Courts of Justice, 29 January; often very cold: oak, benches, windows…
Melanie Gill: Witch Hunt?
We cannot afford to proceed on the blinkered assumption that there have been no miscarriages of justice in the family justice system. This is something…
The Thick of It
When the Prime Minister announced that West Midlands police were ‘wrong’ to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from attending the Aston Villa Europa Cup match on…
Provocations and ‘Picking Quarrels’ – Green Party Leaders Must Wise Up
Brighton’s Green MP Siân Berry posted a strange message on X during the massive feminist gathering at the Brighton Centre on the sea front on…
Without Her Knowledge: The Politics Of The Gaze
More than 30,000 pictures and videos were taken by Dominique Pelicot of his wife, middle aged French woman Gisele Pelicot, without her clothes on, without…
Out and Out Betrayal
Bravo Ruth Davidson – the first openly gay political party leader in the UK, former leader of the Scottish Tories, former Member of the Scottish…
Sir Keir: the Honourable Gentleman who is for turning
Perhaps Sir Keir Starmer ‘misspoke’, perhaps he forgot or Trump-like didn’t really know what his 2024 election manifesto did and didn’t pledge, when he decided…
Somewhere in England’s Green and Pleasant Land…
* Rising and falling stars: Aimee Challenor (First appeared on Byline, September 2018) Somewhere in England there is a girl who was raped, tortured and…
Sex crime and ‘shining rights’
FUREDI INTO THE ABYSS Is there a consensus about sexual abuse of children and rape generally? The answer to this question would seem self-evident…