Thursday 30 March 2017

A revenge porn crackdown is welcome, though it's founded on outdated ideas

New sentencing guidelines will call for jail sentences of up to 2 years for those who send ‘revenge porn’ images to victims’ families, today's Telegraph reports. IT signals a very clear message that this crime, which became a specific offence only in April 2015, will be taken very seriously and is a serious matter.

Sunday 26 March 2017

We can't keep pretending that acts of terror are nothing to do with Islam

“Nothing to do with Islam.” These are words you can reliably expect to hear time and time again after every terrorist atrocity, be it in Paris, Brussels or Westminster. When the flurry of social media outrage dies down, we will look to understand and rationalise the situation, trying to work out what drove somebody like 52-year-old Khalid Masood to drive a car over a bridge, killing and wounding innocent people and causing devastation in a mere 82 seconds.