The quote above is extracted from an article written in 1985 by George P. Schultz, US Secretary of State at the time. Even if I hadn’t just told you that the quote dates back to the 1980s, you would probably have been abl...
Slag, skag-head, hooker, ho, trafficked, trapped, bullied, abused… The visions created by the mention of prostitution – and the levels of compassion or contempt they illicit – can vary wildly from one person to the n...
Recently, the Spinelli Group – a group of federalist MEPs – published a text on a new ‘Fundamental Law’ for the EU. In a recent blog, MEPs Guy Verhofstadt and Andrew Duff called for a more federal Europe, with the Commi...
The Syrian political crisis has escalated rapidly in the last few years with Bashar al-Assad’s government employing chemical weapons against its own civilians. Even though Syria committed to destroying its chemical stockpile ...
Let’s be honest graduation ceremonies are hot, boring, sweaty and unnecessarily long. After 3 or 4 years of complicated and arduous study, it feels like some sort of punishment, rather than the intended purpose of being a...
Previously: The Logic of Our Sex Laws, Part 1: An Overview The English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP), part of the International Prostitutes Collective, has been campaigning for the decriminalisation of prostitution, and for...