Reading for Battle

Battle Readings is a regularly updated compilation of articles, essays, and opinion pieces relevant to the themes of the Battle of Ideas.

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Liberty & Law

Cocaturismo: How Cocaine in Colombia became a tourist attraction
An extract from Cocaina: A Book on Those Who Make It
Magnus Linton, Utne Reader, March 2014

An online Magna Carta: Berners-Lee calls for bill of rights for web
Web's inventor warns neutrality under sustained attack from governments and corporations
Jemima Kiss, Guardian, 12 March 2014

This is rape culture – and look at the damage it does
We live in a world where sexual assault can be dismissed with jokes or excuses, even used in a chatup line or plastered across a T-shirt. The UK rape statistics are shocking, and so are these harrowing reports to the Everyday Sexism Project
Laura Bates, Guardian, 14 February 2014

You can’t legislate against anti-social behaviour
The law disempowers the only people who can tackle anti-social behaviour: us.
Jon Holbrook, spiked, 29 January 2014

The end of public space: one law to ban them all
Laws handing sweeping new powers to police and private security to restrict access to public space are extinguishing the diversity of civic life.
Josie Appleton, OpenDemocracy, 20 January 2014

The Lawyers Riding Roughshod over the Democracy
Lord Sumption is right: legal activism devalues the demos.
Jon Holbrook, spiked, 2 December 2013

The Limits of the Law
What kinds of social tasks can properly be assigned to judges and courts, as opposed to these other agencies of social control?
Lord Sumption, Supreme Court UK, 20 November 2013

Cyber Warfare: The Modern Cold War?
Peter Armstrong, Huffington Post, 18 October 2013

The new feminism is just snobbery
Tim Black, spiked, 12 August 2013

Domestic violence is falling. Why aren't people celebrating?
A man with a hammer sees a world full of nails, Buckminster Fuller said. Keir Starmer sees a world full of domestic violence, because he is out to stop it.
James Heartfield, spiked, 11 July 2013


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