Irony, appreciated
On 8th August, PZ Myers published an email from a woman he knows and trusts (but who had asked Myers not to name her) at his blog. The email said that a well-known figure in the American skeptics...
View ArticleSafe sex and Julian Assange
They fell asleep and she woke up by his penetrating her. She immediately asked if he was wearing anything. He answered: “You.” She said: “You better not have HIV.” He said: “Of course not.” 12th July...
View ArticleNigel Evans: accused
Nigel Evans is a conservative and a Conservative. He’s been a Conservative politician since 1985, when he was elected a councillor for West Glamorgan (the former administrative county in Wales that is...
View ArticleRuining a career
In December 2012, an 18-year-old athlete who belonged to the Aldershot, Farnham, and District Athletic club orally raped a 12-year-old girl. The athlete’s name is Adam Hulin. You can see how promising...
View ArticleCyril Smith and Rochdale
In 1962, when Cambridge House in Rochdale was opened to give young men a clean safe place to stay, Cyril Smith was 34, already an important man in the local community, and he seems to have regarded it...
View ArticleNot All M&Ms Are Poisoned
I wrote some time ago about the massive sense of entitlement that men have that lies behind every rape story I ever heard. Around 7pm on Tuesday 27th May, two young girls of the Dalit caste (the...
View ArticleAssange: Not in jail
Yesterday, Channel 4 News ran an anniversary programme, of sorts: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange – hiding for two years in the Ecuadorian embassy – is in “a prison cell with internet access” and...
View ArticleThoughts about “A letter to”
The Guardian has been doing a series of anonymous articles, subtitled The letter you always wanted to write. No one is named in any of the letters. The letter published today is from a man in his early...
View ArticleJulian Assange evading justice
The statute of limitations for the crimes that Julian Assange is evading justice for in Knightsbridge, will expire this August. Swedish prosecutors will therefore travel to London to carry out the...
View ArticleUnnecessary Legislation: the Coronavirus Bill
This was first posted on Facebook on 23rd March 2020, with support from my Ko-Fi network. Look, imagine an afternoon when you settle down to listen to Parliamentary debate for eight hours (with breaks...
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