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Regulating Relationships: Emotional Abuse and Violence
27 February 2013 3:29 PM | No CommentsAt 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 Castro
21 January 2013 3:25 PM | No CommentsChris 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…”
25 November 2012 11:03 AM | No CommentsJane 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 Reality
27 August 2012 4:15 PM | 5 CommentsFollowing 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 #porntrial
10 August 2012 12:32 PM | No CommentsChris 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 Marriage
09 May 2012 1:09 PM | No CommentsChris 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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Far-Right Archive
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Breivik’s Mirror
Posted on May 9, 2012 | No CommentsCharles Brickdale argues that, in their bigotry and self-righteousness, ‘Hope Not Hate’ are not the friends of liberty they take themselves to be, but instead Breivik’s mirror-image. -
A Bloody Misalliance: Radical Islam and Infantile Marxism
Posted on August 13, 2010 | No CommentsPhilip Bounds examines the odd post-9/11 alliance between radical Islamists and Western Marxists. -
Fear and Loathing in Leeds
Posted on April 30, 2010 | No CommentsPhillip Dickinson argues that Leeds University Union's 'No Platform' position poses a far greater threat to democracy than the BNP. -
Disunited Against Fascism
Posted on November 24, 2009 | 2 CommentsDanny Broderick attended an EDL rally and found the reality to be at odds with the UAF's official position. -
The TUC and the Dangers of Far-Right Obsession
Posted on November 22, 2009 | 2 CommentsObsession can be a dangerous thing, often resulting in irrational and dangerous behaviour – as shown by the Trade Union Congress’ recent vote to invite the state to discriminate in its employment practices, and bar or sack those whose views and political affiliations the TUC finds objectionable.
