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Valley of the Trolls: It’s teh internets FFS

When, in 2007, The People claimed 'child murderer Ian Huntley had secretly joined Facebook', the interwebs responded with Get Huntley Off Facebook (GHOF).

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Belle de Jour & the Depoliticisation of Prostitution

The personal focus of the contemporary prostitution debate has emptied the issue out of all its meaning.

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What We Can Learn From the World’s Strictest Parents

Mark Wanstall explores what reality tv show, The World's Strictest Parents, tells us about our own attitude to children and parenting.

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Relocating to the Man Cave

Nob gags and bodily fluids: 'man cave' films offer a snapshot of young men's retreat from the public world.

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In praise of… The Killing

Charles Brickdale writes in praise of the BBC4 Danish crime thriller, The Killing.

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Queer Truth(s) and the Gay Media

Has the gay media's projection of a monolithic 'gay identity' led to the existence of a new closeted gay man?

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Of Murdoch and Moral Conformity

Keith Lauchlan argues that Murdoch-baiting is nothing but the lazy and moralistic dead-end of UK radicalism.

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The Philistine, the Fundamentalists and the Feminist

Charles Brickdale argues that the denigration of high culture is to blame for Western culture's saturation with sexual imagery.

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The Limits of Free Speech

Jane Fae says the post-Leveson free speech argument is a very partisan one that defends the rights of the privileged few and ignores the pernicious effects of press bullying.

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