Latest editorial
The BBC was forced to apologise to viewers yesterday after a radio presenter told women to “keep their knickers on” if they didn’t want to be the victims of sexual attacks during a live debate about Ched Evans.
Nick Conrad launched a vile sexist attack on women and absolved a man’s part in sexual attacks due to it being “very difficult for many men to say no when they are whipped up into a bit of a storm.”
He also suggested that many feminists have “jumped on” the bandwagon and are attacking the convicted rapist just to appear “anti-men.”
On January 2 2014, PJ Harvey used her turn as guest editor of the Today programme to expose the realities of war, arms dealing and media complicity. The fury that followed showed how rare – and how threatening – such honesty is within Britain’s most Establishment broadcaster, says IAN SINCLAIR
Held at a last-minute undisclosed venue amid fear of disruption, a Women’s Rights Network event brought together authors and activists, offering a day of debate on feminism’s past, present and future. JADE MIDDLETON reports
From sexual innuendo about Blackpool Rock to Bob Dylan’s ‘God-almighty world,’ the corporation’s classist moral custodianship of pop music has created a roll call of censored artists anyone would feel honoured to join, writes NICK MATTHEWS