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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert
Who’s afraid of internet porn?
The current panic about internet porn is born of adult anxieties rather than children’s degeneracy.
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| Monday 10 June 2013 |
Ellie Lee
Stop messing with
mothers-to-be
The mountain of scary ‘advice’ facing pregnant women is built on risk inflation and utterly junk science.
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| Monday 8 April 2013 |
Jennie Bristow
‘Pro-family’ politicians: a threat to the family
Social conservatives, take note: it is oxymoronic to try to strengthen the family by bombarding parents with patronising advice.
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| Wednesday 20 February 2013 |
Joan Wolf
‘Infant formula has enhanced lives’
Joan Wolf, author of Is Breast Best?, answers your questions on formula, fearmongering and free speech.
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| Thursday 10 January 2013 |
Helene Guldberg
Does watching TV give you cancer? Of course not
News reports claiming that TV-addicted kids risk getting cancer confirm that the scaremongers mean business in 2013. It’s time to fight back.
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| Tuesday 27 November 2012 |
Brendan O’Neill
It’s not just UKIP parents who are under suspicion
The Rotherham fostering controversy isn’t a mad one-off - it’s the logical conclusion to the intensification of state meddling in parents’ lives.
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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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| Wednesday 21 November 2012 |
Eero Iloniemi
Standing up for the school bully
Cross-Europe anti-bullying campaigns underestimate children’s resilience and overestimate their fragility.
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| Tuesday 20 November 2012 |
Tim Black
Why mum is better than Big Mother
It is better for children to be with their parents, even those deemed ‘bad’ by the state, than to languish in care.
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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 |
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 |
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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| Wednesday 17 October 2012 |
Helene Guldberg
Switch off the junk science, not the TV
The recent claim that too much television is bad for children is just another policy agenda dressed up as science.
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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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| Thursday 5 July 2012 |
Rania Hafez
Don’t protect us from ‘forced’ marriages
The government says it wants to liberate ethnic-minority women. Actually it’s infantalising us.
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| Monday 2 July 2012 |
Frank Furedi
The bigotry of the
anti-circumcision zealots
ESSAY: Today’s campaigning against circumcision is so dogmatic and intolerant it makes the old religions look enlightened in comparison.
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| Wednesday 27 June 2012 |
Nancy McDermott
An invitation for kids to be cruel
The humiliation of New York bus monitor Karen Klein reveals a great deal about the erosion of adult authority.
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