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…
Author: Beatrix Campbell
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…
The Secret of Richard Webster
Witch hunting in North Wales In lush mountainous Wales, an English literary scribe, Richard Webster, wandered, with his tape recorder, formulating a hypothesis that witch…
Witch-hunters
Peter Ellis cases rises from the dead New Zealand’s child abuse controversy: sex offender gets to the Supreme Court A case that flooded New…
Bad Dreams …Greens and Gender
July 2020 ON BEING NICE – DREAM ON Molly Scott Cato is one of the Green Party’s popular politicians, an economist, and until recently an…
Is the Prime Minister a girl job or a boy job?
Would anyone think it was a question worth asking, whether the Prime Minister is a boy job or a girl job after Britain’s experience of Margaret…
Letter to the Working Class Movement Library
Dear Trustees, I’m writing to you to support the Library’s invitation to Julie Bindel to speak about being a young working class lesbian. It was…
Corbynism
What would it take for the biggest political party in Western Europe to be accorded a bit of respect? Will the mass media reports from…
TRANS/formations
Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse, transgender debates have got — if not worse exactly, then — nastier. The description ’transphobic’ has been thrown…
Commissioner Baird: A Pioneer
Vera Baird begins her rather remarkable book about her first term as Northumbria’s elected Police and Crime Commissioner with a story about rape. That is…