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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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Poetry Archive
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Every Salt Advance — Andrew McMillan (Red Squirrel Press, 2009)
Posted on December 14, 2009 | No CommentsAndrew McMillan’s poetry is strongest when he follows his own personal dictum, and allows his poetry to ‘deal with the unpoetic, with the everyday and the mundane’. -
Hands Off Poetry!
Posted on December 1, 2009 | No CommentsMichele Ledda explains why the removal of a poem from the school curriculum is an important freedom issue. -
Quest Love After Love
Posted on November 2, 2009 | No CommentsMichele Ledda says it is time to ask a few questions about how British pupils study poetry and what they are expected to know about it at the end of compulsory education. -
In Defense of Poetry
Posted on October 18, 2009 | 3 CommentsCarol-Ann Duffy's 'Education for Leisure' brilliantly evokes the inner life of a lost and unemployed loser and implicitly explores the psychological motivations behind a knife-crime.
