Wrongly convicted
Are Australia’s rape reforms jailing innocent men? NSW costs certificates in sexual assault cases leapt from 28% to 67% in three years — and the men who paid.
5 August 2026
presumption of innocence
15 stories
Institutional Cowardice: Grooming Gangs and False Allegations
Patrick O'Loan draws a parallel between the grooming gang scandal and the handling of false allegations: in both, institutions feared activist backlash more than injustice.
27 May 2026
What if the police and prosecution were told to ‘believe all victims of false allegations’?
A Bristol criminologist inverts the instruction: if police and prosecutors had to believe every claimed victim of a false allegation, would they accept it?
22 January 2024
Sexual abuse – or justice abused? A priest’s tale
Fr Gordon MacRae's own account of the New Hampshire investigation, the plea deals he refused and the 1994 trial that left him serving 33½ to 67 years.
8 January 2024
McMaster’s Imaginary Sex Ring
In 2020, a Canadian university tore up its psychology department in search of a non-existent network of sexual predators. Documents obtained by Quillette reveal how administrators allowed it to happen.
14 June 2023
The Stanford Rape Hoax
Jennifer Gries used claims of rape to punish a co-worker. Activists at Stanford used her lies for their own purposes.
3 April 2023
Unproven Sexual Assault Allegations: Creating Celebrities While Destroying Lives
How unproven sexual assault allegations can create celebrities out of accusers while destroying the lives of the accused.
10 January 2023
Police ‘should not automatically believe abuse victims’ to avoid another ‘Nick’ scandal
Head of college of policing said force had ‘overreacted’ to criticism of the handling of historic sexual abuse
15 October 2022
Sir Cliff Richard: Singer feared dying of heart attack after facing child sex assault claims
The singer, who was never arrested or found guilty and strongly denied the claims, was publicly named in a child sex allegation after a police raid on his home in 2014. He is now campaigning for a change in the law so that suspects are only named once they have been charged.
8 June 2022
The jury verdict in the Depp-Heard case: A telling, deserved blow to the #MeToo witch-hunt
A Fairfax County jury found for Johnny Depp against Amber Heard — a significant defeat for the #MeToo witch-hunt and a victory for the presumption of innocence and due process.
3 June 2022
Robert Buckland: Suspected sex offenders should be granted anonymity to protect reputations
The former Justice Secretary says the move would prevent innocent people from having their lives ‘trampled over’
29 May 2022
Actor Johnny Depp’s testimony exposes unsubstantiated #MeToo allegations by Amber Heard
Four days into Johnny Depp’s defamation trial against Amber Heard, his testimony paints a very different picture from the #MeToo allegations that damaged his acting career.
23 April 2022
The use of ‘recovered memory’ in this alarming Aussie sex scandal reveals its ruinous nature, & the weakness of liberal democracy
The Australian government may fall because of unproven and extremely dodgy 30-year-old rape allegations against a cabinet minister – the unchecked power of the #MeToo movement and its woke media allies is destroying our society.
9 March 2021
The New York Times gloats over the destruction of “the Monster” Weinstein
Weinstein’s conviction has established the “breakthrough” principle that a criminal conviction can be secured without reliable and verifiable evidence. The working class and poor will suffer the consequences.
26 February 2020
Yewtree: more propaganda than police investigation
The failure of a few prosecutions won't stop the crusade.
19 February 2014