Last week a racist MP (notice that I have not put the adjective in speech marks) was suspended for using a racist expression (again, deliberately no speech marks). Almost every single racist expression, in common (if not public!) parlance, which relates to black people, comes from the slave-trade era. This fact encapsulates a fascinating, if somewhat […]
A comprehensive but complex body of case law has now been built up to deal with how to divide up assets acquired before marriage, and inheritance and gifts received during the marriage, following divorce. The current tools available to Judges, mediators and arbiters are the provisions under s.25 Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, imprecise notions of […]
The word ‘hegemony’ is a noun which relates to the state of leadership, mastery, control or dominance, usually by men over women. Hence the expression ‘male hegemony’. It is probably the biggest single social phenomenon which prevents male victims of female abuse from coming forward. Such victims face what academics call a ‘credibility hurdle’. However […]
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