Charles Brickdale taught English and Religious Studies for thirty years in secondary schools in Leeds and Bradford. He is now a one-to-one intervention tutor in two schools helping students struggling with English or let down by what he sees as an increasingly dysfunctional state system. On Saturday mornings in term time he runs the supplementary school established by Civitas Schools in Keighley to promote traditional, subject-centred approaches to education.
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Regulating Relationships: Emotional Abuse and ViolenceAt a recent Manchester Salon event, Helen Reece and Anna Percy discussed new domestic violence legislation that expands the definition of DV to include 'emotional abuse' and 'coercive control'.
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Nude Norms: The Curious Case of the CastroChris Ashford and Sara Mohammadzadeh note how sexual freedom has shifted from the radical narrative of the 70s to the more cautious and homogenous attitude of the twenty-first century.
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“I can’t imagine why you would want to watch this…”Jane Fae argues that the real danger to individual freedom lies in the sub-legal level: the legal establishment's view of what the law OUGHT to say.
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Extreme Pornography: Legal Theory, Institutional RealityFollowing the Simon Walsh case, Nick Cowen challenges the arguments of those academic legal theorists who claimed the objections to the 'extreme pornography law' were overwrought or unjustified.
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Reflections and Future Legal Directions After #porntrialChris Ashford was an expert witness in R v Walsh. He reflects here on the potential legal implications of the case.
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The Politics of Same-Sex MarriageChris Ashford notes that, despite politics on both sides of the Atlantic being dominated by the subject of same-sex marriage, most politicians remain frustratingly vague about their views.
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