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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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| Wednesday 15 August 2012 |
Tim Black
An ugly rerun of the Satanic panic
British officialdom’s war on ‘faith-linked’ child abuse echoes its earlier hysterical belief that men in black cloaks were eating babies.
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| Thursday 14 June 2012 |
Tim Black
Officialdom’s pervy fantasy world
Recent reports of rampant child abuse in the UK owe more to the sordid mindset of officialdom than fact.
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| Monday 5 September 2011 |
Tim Black
The NSPCC doesn’t help kids - it harms them
With its ceaseless promotion of fear and suspicion of adults, the NSPCC undermines organic bonds between generations.
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| Monday 8 August 2011 |
Heather Piper
Daring to criticise child protection policies
As a researcher into ‘no touch’ policies discovered, you criticise child-protection quangos at your peril.
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| Wednesday 12 January 2011 |
David Clements
Abuse and neglect are not the norm
The main problems faced by social workers today are caused by society’s suspicion of the adult-child relationship.
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| Tuesday 10 November 2009 |
Tim Black
See? Mothers can be sex abusers, too
On the flimsiest of evidence, ChildLine and the NSPCC are now even spreading suspicion about the mother-child bond.
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| Monday 20 July 2009 |
Brendan O’Neill
‘Memoir is the twin sister of fiction’
Upon the death of Frank McCourt, described by some as the inventor of the misery memoir, read spiked’s interview with him from 2001.
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| Friday 30 January 2009 |
Jennie Bristow
The making of a
modern-day witch hunt
The publication of the paperback version of Richard Webster’s The Secret of Bryn Estyn is a powerful reminder of who is driving today’s hysterical anti-paedophile witch hunts: police, judges, politicians… the elite, not the mob.
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| Thursday 4 December 2008 |
Brendan O’Neill
How the abuse industry is exploiting Baby P
If the killing of Baby P wasn’t awful enough, now his death is being used to institute a new era of familial fear and spying.
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| Tuesday 18 November 2008 |
Tim Black
Is it P for ‘prole’?
The death of one child is scandalously held up as evidence that Britain has a murderous ‘underclass’.
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| Tuesday 18 November 2008 |
Brendan O’Neill
Dead baby porn
The media coverage of Baby P has been a concoction of pornographic detail and coercive moralising.
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| Wednesday 12 November 2008 |
Jennie Bristow
‘Baby P’: don’t turn this tragedy into a policy
Let’s stop the government from using this case as a springboard for spreading suspicion. PLUS: Ken McLaughlin on ‘scattergun social work’.
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