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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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| Wednesday 8 May 2013 |
Barbara Hewson
Yewtree is destroying the rule of law
With its emphasis on outcomes over process, the post-Savile witch-hunting of ageing celebs echoes the Soviet Union.
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| Wednesday 8 May 2013 |
Luke Gittos
Is this justice, or naming and shaming?
Every Yewtree arrest generates anti-celeb sneering. But an arrest does not equal guilt, at least not in civilised societies.
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| Thursday 25 April 2013 |
Mick Hume
Can you see what they did yet?
Yes, Rolf Harris should be named. But the media should also be asking why he’s been arrested.
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| Thursday 7 March 2013 |
Denis Joe
Don’t let abuse fears ruin music
A Savile-style inquiry into one of the UK’s top music schools could wreck the informality essential to music tuition.
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| Monday 4 March 2013 |
Frank Furedi
So, when is sex appropriate?
ESSAY: The current moral crusade against ‘inappropriate behaviour’ speaks to today's stultifying and prurient political culture.
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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 14 January 2013 |
Mick Hume
Operation Yewtree: putting the past on trial
The Savile scandal has become a trawl for celebrity sexual abuse in the 1960s and 1970s that reads history backwards.
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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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| 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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| 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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