Popes and the Pill
…and the NHS For 60 years the Catholic Church has managed to insinuate itself, without our knowledge or consent, into the administration of the…
Author: Beatrix Campbell
Peter Tatchell, women and children – why are we so disheartened and worried?
Here is a letter I’ve sent to Peter Tatchell following his bitter tirade against feminists. I should explain: We had been in email conversation for a…
Culture wars: sexual harassment. How do we know it will stop?
These are some of the thoughts I shared with a splendid gathering in Melbourne, We Revolt At Dawn, organised by the Search Foundation and the…
Wolf-Whistles: What They Really Mean
Earlier than usual — maybe 7.30 am — the BBC rang: What did I think about the woman who’d gone to the police over a wolf-whistle…
Mantel’s Right Royal Calumny
Oh what a mighty calumny Hilary Mantel has caused. Her ravishing, slightly odd, fastidious, eloquent, essay on suits, frocks, fabrics and royal bodies in the…
JODIE FOSTER FOREVER — THE ACCUSED
Jodie Foster answers the eternal question, “Am I gay?”, when she comes out in 2013, almost a quarter of a century after her magnificent movie…
PHOBIAS, PROFANITIES and CENSORS
Wild twittering about what exactly….? CAN THIS BE FEMINISM? http://www.dailydot.com/society/suzanne-moore-julie-burchill-transphobia/ Here’s my own take on bans, prohibitions and Julie Bindel being proscribed by NUS for…
JIMMY SAVILE: MORAL PANICS THE BIG SOCIETY and HOW SOCIETY WAS GROOMED BY A PROLIFIC PREDATOR
No sooner does child abuse get aired than we are warned against witchhunts, obsession, and hysteria. Always. It is happening again; it is de rigueur.…
WHEN IS COLLUSION CONSPIRACY?
The Finucane family get the de Silva Report, December 2012 WHEN is a ‘conspiracy’ only ‘collusion’? And when is collusion only normal life? Sir…
Murdoch’s Money and Metropolitan Police Madness
There is no way that Rupert Murdoch’s proposed offer of around 3 million to the Dowler family can be anything but unsettling. The money, mighty…