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Luke Samuel
An assault on ‘real’
men - and women
A London poster campaign about male rape is part of a trend to encourage us all to be victims in need of support.
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| Thursday 15 March 2012 |
Frank Furedi
The moral crusaders who confuse sex with rape
Today’s relentless awareness-raising about an alleged epidemic of rape speaks to officialdom’s suspicion of interpersonal relationships.
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| Thursday 15 March 2012 |
Luke Samuel
Stand up if you hate this law
Chanting ‘vile abuse’ at other footie supporters shouldn’t be a criminal offence – it is a vital part of being a fan.
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| Thursday 8 March 2012 |
Gabrielle Shiner
We're not all abusers until proven innocent
In casting us all as domestic abusers until the cops say otherwise, ‘Clare’s Law’ gives relationships a battering.
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| Thursday 8 March 2012 |
Luke Samuel
Who hasn't done a
little bit of 'stalking'?
In criminalising stalking, the government is outlawing all sorts of normal, if lovelorn behaviour.
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| Wednesday 7 March 2012 |
Patrick Hayes
This state cop-out is a menace to society
The outsourcing of police services to private companies is a far bigger deal than most people realise.
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| Thursday 9 February 2012 |
Luke Samuel
A perverted ruling that degrades us all
A bizarre court order banning an autistic woman from having sex dehumanises people with learning difficulties.
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| Wednesday 1 February 2012 |
Luke Samuel
Don’t replace the drug laws with therapy laws
Campaigners who claim they want to liberalise the drug laws are in fact demanding more state control over drug-users.
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| Tuesday 24 January 2012 |
Theresa Clifford
A mega attack on internet freedom
You don’t have to be a fan of the juvenile people behind Megaupload to be worried by the crackdown against it.
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| Thursday 19 January 2012 |
Luke Samuel
Trial by jury: the case for the defence
We should fight hard to defend the right to a jury trial, which remains the ‘lamp that shows that freedom lives’.
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| Tuesday 25 October 2011 |
Tim Black
So, it wasn’t the gangs wot dunnit
New Home Office figures confirm that the craven attempt to blame England’s August riots on well-organised, evil gangs was pure fantasy.
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| Monday 10 October 2011 |
Tim Black
The global culture war over Amanda Knox
How did one woman become such a talking point? Because she got bound up in a clash between ‘louche America’ and ‘medieval Italy’.
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| Monday 3 October 2011 |
Nigel Scott
Knox: victim of an Italian soap opera
A supporter of the Injustice in Perugia campaign reports on the absolute dearth of evidence against Amanda Knox.
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| Monday 3 October 2011 |
Tim Black
The culture war over ‘Foxy Knoxy’
The pro-Amanda Knox campaign is far from saintly, what with its Italy-bashing and whispers about backward European men.
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| Wednesday 24 August 2011 |
Tim Black
Dominique Strauss-Kahn: a modern-day scapegoat
In the past, backward villagers would invest a goat with the sins of the village and then cast it out. Feminists tried the same trick with DSK.
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| Thursday 18 August 2011 |
Brendan O’Neill
Riotous youth: hang ’em high or hug ’em hard?
Why spiked is taking neither side in the great national handwringing over whether looters should get jail time or tough love.
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| Tuesday 28 June 2011 |
Patrick Hayes
An eight-year-old cannot commit rape
The Daily Mail report on the rise of ‘child criminals’ actually reveals that British adults have lost the plot.
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| Tuesday 24 May 2011 |
Helen Reece
Rape law: did Ken Clarke have a point?
The expanded definition of rape in recent years is causing discomfort for politicians, lawyers and jurors.
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| Thursday 19 May 2011 |
Nathalie Rothschild
This rape debate is demeaning to women
The current debate over the law on rape rehabilitates the Victorian view of women as helpless victims.
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| Tuesday 10 May 2011 |
Tim Black
The superinjunction only intensifies the gossip game
Yes, society’s obsession with people’s private peccadilloes and antics is a problem – but it won’t be fixed through illiberal injunctions.
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