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Recalibrating the #MeToo Movement

Men subjected to public shaming and career destruction over either false or trivial accusations, or over complicated and messy relationships, should never have been regarded as acceptable collateral damage.

10 March 2023

England

Is Clive Freeman’s claim of innocence plausible?

Clive Freeman is 79 and in his 35th year in prison for a murder he says never happened. Nine pathologists have since disputed the prosecution pathologist’s conclusion that Alexander Hardie was suffocated — and the CCRC has rejected four applications.

1 March 2023

USA

Scenes from a Marriage

In 2020, a British High Court judge ruled that actor Johnny Depp was probably a “wife beater.” In 2022, an American jury disagreed. Who got it right?

18 January 2023

Courts

Mobiles in the dock

Bettina Arndt on courts withholding mobile phone evidence that could clear men accused of sexual assault.

11 January 2023