Telling women not to go out to avoid rape isn’t about safety. It’s about restricting women’s freedom. Here’s why.

    We’re into Season 2 of The Handmaid’s Tale (which I’m not yet watching, but I’ve just read the book. Aside: Is it weird that the show has already gone past the book in terms of June’s pregnancy?) And I’m seeing lots of posts from Americans about how the show “is slowly happening in

Why British Campus Sexual Assault Victims Can’t Get Justice From Their University- But Americans Can

First published on The Fifth Column, 2/10/17. Students, sexual assault survivors and campaigners in the USA are riled up, and rightfully so: Education Secretary Betsy DeVos last week rescinded Obama-era guidance on universities’ duties to deal with campus sexual assault. But just because there’s a relative lack of public debate on the issue in Britain,