Is bottom-pinching still 'indecent' by today's community standards?

Apr 03, 2019 10:18 am UTC| Insights & Views Life Law

In a recent court case in Western Australia, Magistrate Michelle Ridley ruled that in an era of twerking and easy access to pornography, a police officer pinching a womans backside is not indecent assault. Heres what...

Our faith in information is faltering when we most need facts

Apr 01, 2019 17:30 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

We shouldnt need a Super Bowl commercial costing around $10 million to remind us that information is supposed to matter in a democracy. Yet the Washington Post thought we did, so it told 111 million Americans watching...

Do you have a moral duty to pay taxes?

Apr 01, 2019 17:21 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

Its tax season. Americans will pay an average of US$10,489 in personal taxes about 14 percent of the average households total income. Most will do so because they think it is their civic duty. Many believe they are...

'Self-reliance' for refugees? Badly handled it can make matters worse

Apr 01, 2019 17:18 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

Policymakers and aid agencies in sub-Saharan Africa are increasingly encouraging initiatives that help refugee communities become self-reliant. The aim is for refugees to find or create work so that they can survive...

Vampire's rebirth: from monstrous undead creature to sexy and romantic Byronic seducer in one ghost story

Apr 01, 2019 17:08 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

Victorian physician John Polidori took the vampire out of the forests of eastern Europe, gave him an aristocratic lineage and placed him into the drawing rooms of Romantic-era England. His tale The Vampyre,, published 200...

Raising children under suspicion and criminalization

Apr 01, 2019 17:01 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

Many were horrified by the viral video of New York City police officers ripping Jazmine Headleys one-year-old from her arms as she cried out, Theyre hurting my son! On Dec. 7, 2018, Headley was waiting in a Brooklyn,...

If we want students to feel safe at school, we can't encourage teachers to spot potential extremists

Apr 01, 2019 17:01 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

In the wake of the Christchurch terrorist attack, former UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair told a global education forum extremism should be treated as a global problem like climate change. He said: there should be an...