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Frank Furedi
The moral lynching
of Barbara Hewson
The crusade against the ‘whore’ Hewson after she criticised Operation Yewtree confirms that the paedophile panic rips apart rational debate.
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| Friday 22 March 2013 |
Frank Furedi
‘If you question the Savile crusade, you're seen as evil’
Frank Furedi on his new book about Jimmy Savile, and why it's so hard, but so important, to challenge the moral crusade on child abuse.
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| Monday 14 January 2013 |
Frank Furedi
Using children as a moral shield
Officials and charities that use children to front their moralistic campaigns are trying to shut down criticism and opposition.
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| Monday 3 December 2012 |
Luke Gittos
Passing judgement on the dead
Prosecutors and police had no business in pronouncing that the late Liberal Democrat MP Cyril Smith had abused children.
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| Tuesday 27 November 2012 |
Patrick Hayes
Is there a better way to deal with witch hunts?
Legal action is not the best way of holding to account the kind of modern-day irrationalists who smeared Lord McAlpine.
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| Monday 26 November 2012 |
Frank Furedi
The invention of yet
another form of abuse
A new report claiming that thousands of British children are being sexually exploited is built on alarmist moralising rather than hard facts.
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| Monday 26 November 2012 |
Tim Black
Revisiting the
Satanic panic
ESSAY: 20 years after families were ripped apart by hysterical officials, the lessons of that scandal haven’t been learnt.
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| Monday 26 November 2012 |
Neil Davenport
Don’t let them rewrite the Cleveland debacle
Some are using the Savile panic to rehabilitate the state’s unhinged child-protection policies. We must stop them.
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| Tuesday 13 November 2012 |
Frank Furedi
The vigilantism of the Little Bullingdons
The current ‘paedo hysteria’ is being fanned, not by low-rent tabloid papers, but by politicians, serious journalists and the Twitterati.
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| Monday 5 November 2012 |
Frank Furedi
Are we all condemned to live in ‘cycles of abuse’?
It is now heresy to question the idea that child abuse damages a person for life. But such a deeply fatalistic idea must be questioned.
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| Monday 5 November 2012 |
Victoria Scott
No, I am not scarred for life
I was abused as a child, but I won’t define myself as ‘damaged’. I have chosen to do something more life-affirming – move on.
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| Thursday 1 November 2012 |
Brendan O’Neill
We need a Full Stop
to this scaremongering
The NSPCC and others have leapt upon the Savile scandal to promote their claims that child abuse is rife in modern Britain. But it isn’t.
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| Wednesday 24 October 2012 |
Frank Furedi
The Savile inquiries:
giving truth a bad name
The excavation of the past to ‘uncover the truth’ about Savile is really about looking at history through today’s abuse-obsessed goggles.
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| Wednesday 24 October 2012 |
Brendan O’Neill
An educated,
erudite lynch mob
The hysteria over Savile reminds us that it isn’t tabloids that drive paedophile panics - it’s the great and the good.
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| Wednesday 24 October 2012 |
Tim Black
Auntie becomes
a dirty uncle
Even the mighty BBC, so beloved of Britain’s cultural elite, is impotent in the face of the child abuse panic.
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| Wednesday 24 October 2012 |
Luke Gittos
An inhumane presumption of guilt
As the Savile scandal reaches a new pitch, key principles of criminal justice are being sacrificed at the altar of victimhood.
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| Friday 19 October 2012 |
Stuart Waiton
The perversion of being an adolescent
The Perks of Being a Wallflower perfectly illustrates the dangers of the modern, unhealthy obsession with child abuse.
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| Monday 15 October 2012 |
Brendan O’Neill
Savile: the mad hunt for a conspiracy of witches
With its contagion of accusation and counter-accusation, the Savile scandal has exposed the Salem-style irrationalism of the modern elite.
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| Wednesday 3 October 2012 |
Tim Black
The savaging of Jimmy Savile
The only beneficiary of the accusations against Savile is the suspicion-spreading child-protection industry.
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