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Month: February 2016

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Kesha

February 29, 2016March 30, 2016 CabernetVoltaire

Court cases often make the news, it’s true. They excite polarised opinions, it’s true. But they tend to be criminal cases at the very least. It isn’t often that the outcome of an application for an interim injunction in a … Continue reading Kesha

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Rolf

February 23, 2016March 30, 2016 CabernetVoltaire

Personally, I always found Rolf Harris faintly ridiculous. In my childhood, I think life was leavened slightly by his songs about additional limbs, unruly marsupials, predictable solar phenomena and late sibling reconciliation, and I liked his TV series about swimming … Continue reading Rolf

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Tatchell – Post script

February 22, 2016March 2, 2016 CabernetVoltaire

After my earlier post about the no-platforming of gay and civil rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, I had the advantage of seeing him interviewed on Newsnight (from 32:00) opposite trans-activist Paris Lees, and this experience both settled some of my questions … Continue reading Tatchell – Post script

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TERF wars

February 17, 2016March 16, 2016 CabernetVoltaire

There are moments when you get that ‘then felt I like some watcher of the skies’ moment; you suddenly realise that there’s a whole world that you have never seen, and that you probably don’t understand. Sometimes it isn’t in … Continue reading TERF wars

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Tatchell

February 16, 2016March 2, 2016 CabernetVoltaire

So the latest victim of no-platforming is none other than veteran civil and gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, proving that no one is sufficiently right-on not to fall foul of the current wave of student Stalinism, should it so happen … Continue reading Tatchell

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Brazen

February 4, 2016March 2, 2016 CabernetVoltaire

The Guardian ran an innumerate little piece today headed ‘David Cameron’s Oxford college admits fewest state school applicants.’ Before we even look at the substance (hah!) of the article, we might briefly pause to think about what we expect the … Continue reading Brazen

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Gender

February 3, 2016March 2, 2016 CabernetVoltaire

NB: Warning! Plural pronoun used as genderless here. Deal with it. There are probably a few thinking people still left who haven’t heard of the notion of non-binary gender, and they can be forgiven if they had perhaps come across … Continue reading Gender

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