Why “Believe the Victims” is a Really Bad Idea. Part Two: “Believe the Victims” can be wrong: false testimony. Contrary…
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Believe the victims! That was the burden of hashtags, tweets and FB status updates on a monumental scale last week,…
Some time back, I wrote about the Children of God—a doomsday cult born in the swinging sixties, notorious for the…
A few years back, a close relative of mine served on the defense team in a very high-profile serial-murder trial.…
You really couldn’t make this up. Move over, blackface and feather headdresses; yoga has joined the list of terrible things…
Sorry, world. It seems we Canadians let you all down a couple of weeks ago. There was one national leader…
Ding dong, the witch is dead. Sauron has vanished from Middle Earth. Palpatine has plummeted down the shaft of the…
Well, the dust has settled, and the internet’s fickle attention has shifted away from June’s flavour-of-the-month hot news item: the…
It is now about a month since Sir Tim Hunt, distinguished scientist, Nobel Laureate, and honoured guest, stood up at…
Once upon a time there were two people who made very silly jokes that offended a lot of other people—at…