Published at 12:09AM, September 26 2013
The post-Savile witch-hunt of ageing men shows moral panic, one barrister tells Frances Gibb
"Barbara Hewson is unrepentant. The barrister seems even to be relishing her notoriety. Against the current spate of historical sex abuse allegations she made headlines by claiming that there was a witch-hunt of ageing celebrities that was now a “juggernaut out of control”.
Hewson’s chambers, Hardwicke, has made clear that her comments are her own and she has had abusive e-mails. Yet the human rights and public law specialist has received support, too: why, one person said, is it even news that she is putting forward an alternative view?"
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/law/article3878965.ece
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September 28, 2013
Times interview: Barbara Hewson QC speaks to Frances Gibb QC
http://www.factuk.org/times-interview-barbara-hewson-qc-speaks-to-frances-gibb-qc
Showing posts with label Moral Crusades. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Moral Crusades. Show all posts
Thursday, 26 September 2013
Friday, 22 March 2013
The Most Totalitarian Ideas Suddenly Become Acceptable
March 2013
‘If you question the Savile crusade, you're seen as evil’
"Frank Furedi on his new book about Jimmy Savile, and why it's so hard, but so important, to challenge the moral crusade on child abuse.
Frank Furedi, author, sociologist and spiked writer, has written a new book called Moral Crusades in an Age of Mistrust: The Jimmy Savile Scandal. He talked to Tim Black about why he wrote the book, and why he expects it to win him few friends.
Tim Black: What made you write Moral Crusades in an Age of Mistrust?
Frank Furedi: I’ve become concerned about how the issue of children and abuse has become so badly moralised. It is as if any claim is permissible if you invoke children; the most totalitarian ideas suddenly become acceptable. When it comes to children and allegations of abuse, only one interpretation, only one story is permissible. If you treat child abuse as you would any other crime, and apply the same standards of justice, you are condemned as at best cruel and insensitive, and at worst as an accomplice to an act of paedophilia."
http://www.spiked-online.com/site/reviewofbooks_preview/13468/
Frank Furedi
"Sociologist, commentator and author of Culture of Fear, Where Have All The Intellectuals Gone?, Paranoid Parenting, Therapy Culture, and On Tolerance: In Defence of Moral Independence."
http://www.frankfuredi.com
Moral Crusades in an Age of Mistrust: The Jimmy Savile Scandal
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1137338016/spiked
‘If you question the Savile crusade, you're seen as evil’
"Frank Furedi on his new book about Jimmy Savile, and why it's so hard, but so important, to challenge the moral crusade on child abuse.
Frank Furedi, author, sociologist and spiked writer, has written a new book called Moral Crusades in an Age of Mistrust: The Jimmy Savile Scandal. He talked to Tim Black about why he wrote the book, and why he expects it to win him few friends.
Tim Black: What made you write Moral Crusades in an Age of Mistrust?
Frank Furedi: I’ve become concerned about how the issue of children and abuse has become so badly moralised. It is as if any claim is permissible if you invoke children; the most totalitarian ideas suddenly become acceptable. When it comes to children and allegations of abuse, only one interpretation, only one story is permissible. If you treat child abuse as you would any other crime, and apply the same standards of justice, you are condemned as at best cruel and insensitive, and at worst as an accomplice to an act of paedophilia."
http://www.spiked-online.com/site/reviewofbooks_preview/13468/
Frank Furedi
"Sociologist, commentator and author of Culture of Fear, Where Have All The Intellectuals Gone?, Paranoid Parenting, Therapy Culture, and On Tolerance: In Defence of Moral Independence."
http://www.frankfuredi.com
Moral Crusades in an Age of Mistrust: The Jimmy Savile Scandal
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1137338016/spiked
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