Finsbury Park and Westminster Bridge – beyond the label ‘terrorist’ 29 June 2017 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: News , Radicalisation , No Comments On Wednesday 19 June 2017, a van rammed into pedestrians near the Finsbury Park mosque in north London. One man died and several others were injured. The van’s driver, 47-year […]
Westminster attack – the inability to express pain 26 March 2017 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: News , Radicalisation , No Comments On the morning of 22 March 2017, 52-year-old Khalid Masood ploughed his car into the crowd along Westminster Bridge before being shot by police near the Houses of Parliament. Four people died […]
The secret purpose of Papua New Guinea’s witchcraft trials 23 October 2015 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: News , Patriarchy , No Comments Videos from Papua New Guinea reportedly showing women accused of witchcraft being tortured have recently appeared on social media. These videos—taken by people participating in the abuses—are commonly shared among Papua […]
The curious case of the blindfold and the strap-on 15 September 2015 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: News , Shame , No Comments You wouldn’t read about it in the The Erotic Sherlock Holmes, that obscure Victorian casebook which men smirked over during billiards and women with pince-nez glasses curdled their faces at while desperately […]
The redemption of Monica Lewinsky 30 March 2015 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: News , Shame , No Comments “You’re looking at a woman who was publicly silent for a decade”. So begins a brave and inspiring TED talk from Monica Lewinsky. For those of you who weren’t following American politics in 1998, Lewinsky—then a […]
The hypocrisy of Thailand’s ‘underboob selfie’ crackdown 16 March 2015 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: News , Patriarchy , Sexuality , No Comments “Makes Saturday is better with some #underboob”, runs a Facebook post from drunkenstepfatherdotcom. But for Thai actress and model @saramalakul, tagged in the said post, Saturday (or whatever day of the […]
Death of a Car Lady – under the hood of Anne Naysmith’s life 16 February 2015 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Arts , News , Shame , No Comments Last Friday, the eve of Valentine’s Day, red roses spontaneously appeared in the windows of many of the shops lining the Chiswick High Street. The […]
Angkor Wat the butt of tourist nude jokes 7 February 2015 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: News , Sexuality , No Comments Agence France-Presse—who can be trusted on such matters—advise that two American sisters were arrested at the Angkor Wat temple complex after “they lowered their pants and took pictures of their buttocks”. Lindsey […]
Forget the World Cup, emotional cohesion is the only game in town 10 July 2014 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Anxiety , News , No Comments Over a decade ago I read a prediction that in the future the world’s people would divide in two. This process was referred to as “no more sitting […]
Grimm reality behind Swedish prostitution laws? 12 December 2013 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: News , Sexuality , No Comments Once upon a time there was a far-away land called Sweden, where circa 1998 there were 2,500 prostitutes gainfully employed keeping the Big Bad Wolf in a post-coital stupor. To reduce sex trafficking, a […]