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…
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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…
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…
Leon Brittan — who needs an apology now?
Tory grandees, former ministers and yesterday’s men queue up to denounce the police for investigating sexual abuse allegations against members of the Tory establishment. They…
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…
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…