Born to Run?
Panorama’s scalding investigation into greyhound racing on 3rd November is supported by this petition. Here is what I have written about this cruel industry’s abuse of…
Category: Comment
For a Day in July 2014…
FOR A DAY in July 2014, the advocates of children in care institutions who have been sexually abused by adults — including suspects shielded from…
Abortion – what’s the story?
Lifestyle or self-determination? What should be the focus of debates about abortion in Britain? The Daily Telegraph reports ‘lifestyle abortions warning as serial termination numbers…
Scudamore: Sexism isn’t silly – c’mon football, kick it out!
Odd, isn’t it, that sexism is indulged as just silly? That’s how it seemed in my conversation on Radio 5 Live this week Richard Scudamore’s…
Violence in Vogue
Vogue Italia finds itself in an imbroglio about violence against women. Every year editor Franca Sozzani attempts a ‘political’ spread. She is alert to the…
Taking Liberties: Civil Liberties and Sexual Abuse
The Daily Mail ignores in its purported exposure — shaming — of Harriet Harman and the National Council for Civil Liberties over the organisation’s tolerance…
Rape: Getting Away With It
In the aftermath of yet another woman’s death, following yet another rape trial acquittal, The Independent reported yet another scandal — hapless investigation and prosecution…
Plebgate Morphs into Plodgate
Black Bodies, Women’s Bodies: Spectres Haunting the Police Representatives of the Police Federation are called to explain themselves to a Parliamentary committee in November 2013.…
A Very British Murder
Reports of the horrendous death of Bijan Ebrahimi — a disabled man living in Bristol — seem doomed to point in all the wrong directions.…
From Jasmine Beckford to Daniel Pelka: a history of chaos and calumny
In three decades of child protection, an alliance between state and children has been compromised by the compliance culture. Read more of my article in…