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Tommy Robinson and the Weaponisation of Women’s Trauma

February 17, 2019 | by | 1 Comments
Tommy Robinson, recently made adviser to UKIP on the subject of grooming gangs, is just another in a long list of men exploiting women’s trauma to score political points. Written by Melanie Gardner Over the last few days there have been two instances of the rape or sexual assault of women being used to advance […] Read more

Homophobia from Auckland’s Pride board should come as no surprise

February 6, 2019 | by | 6 Comments
Written by Renee Gerlich Recent incidents of lesbian and gay erasure at Auckland Pride show how transactivism harms LGB rights and promotes stereotypes rather than a sexuality. In January, Auckland Pride board member Phylesha Brown-Acton told “self-obsessed gay male muppets” to “take your moral compass and shove it up the hole that you can’t seem […] Read more

Rational Empathy – A Book By Rohit Balakrishnan

January 23, 2019 | by | 0 Comments
Rational Empathy: How the Mind Reveals Objective Morality through Happiness is a debut book written by Rohit Balakrishnan from India, available for purchase from Amazon Kindle in an e-book format. The questions about good and evil, right and wrong–or in other words, moral questions–have always perplexed mankind from time immemorial. What is morality? Is it […] Read more

Religious Exemptions Fuel Bigotry – Ban Non-Stun Slaughter

January 10, 2019 | by | 0 Comments
One law for all is the only sustainable way to beat bigots – Chris Sloggett from the National Secular Society calls for a ban on non-stun slaughter. As the new year opened, a measure preventing the slaughter of animals without pre-stunning came into effect in the Flanders region, which roughly covers the northern half of Belgium. A […] Read more

Now is the Time – Britain Must Stand Against Saudi Arabia

October 23, 2018 | by | 0 Comments
By Stephen Hawkins What kind of line must Saudi Arabia cross before Britain stops defending the regime and starts politically and economically isolating the state? There is a number of approaches when one poses the question of how Britain can deal with a state that consistently and persistently violates human rights, follows a fundamentally Islamist agenda, and […] Read more

The Solipsism Of Identity Politics

September 18, 2018 | by | 1 Comments
Taken to its logical conclusion, identity politics is solipsistic in nature, diminishing understanding of the world beyond the self. To fully understand marginalisation, one needs to have experienced marginalisation first-hand. This assumption is increasingly fundamental to today’s practice of identity politics, evident in the higher credence that many people claim ought to be afforded to […] Read more