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Seminar: Law and the Power of Feminism

This week, I attended an amazing seminar given by Professor Rosemary Auchmuty on “Law and the Power of Feminism: how marriage lost its power to oppress women”. This post is a straight summary of Auchmuty’s talk, without commentary from me. … Continue reading

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Homosexuality versus diversity

I have posted previously how, as a conservative evangelical Christian, I have continually struggled with what the Bible often quite clearly says. For various reasons, no where has this been most difficult than on the question of homosexuality. Until today, … Continue reading

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Dialectical breakdown

The Law Commission has launched a public consultation on whether pre-nuptial agreements should be legally binding. One of its hypothesis is that the binding nature of the agreement would lead to more marriages, because the couple can be certain that … Continue reading

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Just because it’s tradition, doesn’t mean you have to follow it.

Today’s story in the Times about this supposed ‘conspiracy of silence’ about the apparently significant number of British Pakistani men in gangs grooming and sexually exploiting young, white girls does raise a question about Tamil tradition. When a Tamil girl … Continue reading

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