It’s not often I disagree with my colleague Tom Watson MP, but on the issue of Fiona Woolf being forced out of the chairmanship of the child sex abuse inquiry after a string of damning revelations I think he’s got it wrong. “Labour should not go after May”, he’s reported as saying. Of course he’s […]
Posts Tagged ‘Child Abuse’
Woolf’s enforced resignation exposes Establishment & Home Office stitch-up
Nov 1st, 2014 by Jon Lansman.Avoiding charge of racism is a cover for patriarchy and misogyny in Rotherham
Aug 28th, 2014 by Diane Abbott.The child sex abuse scandal in Rotherham is a toxic mix of race, class and misogyny. And this was not a handful of girls hidden in a cellar by a particular gang. This was hundreds of young women (and some young men), year on year, being victimised in plain sight. Anybody who took a cab […]
How not to write about Rotherham
Aug 28th, 2014 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.Sexual violence against women and girls comes in all skin colours, all languages, all forms of religious belief. One would hope its tacit acceptance by institutions laying claim to the protection of the most vulnerable lies in the distant past. But the report into the institutional silence, if not silencing of the victims of a Pakistani-descent paedophile gang […]