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report into allegations of child abuse at the
Shieldfield Nursery in the city in 1993. She claimed the council inquiry was "stringent" and had found "persuasive evidence of sadistic and sexual abuse of up to 350 children". The alleged perpetrators were workers at the nursery, Dawn Reed and
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of the decision. She characterized identifying as transgender as "a kind of an exemplar of a neoliberal version of what it means to be human, at its most idiosyncratic, i.e. you can choose! You can choose to be anything you like," adding, "Well, I’m sorry, you can’t."
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in 1970, and from that time was oriented towards women and women's issues. Having come out as a lesbian aged 23, Campbell subsequently married a woman, with no thought given, she stated, to the distinction between 'civil partnership' and 'marriage'.
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The transgender vigilantes should listen up, wise up and grow up, participate in, not proscribe, the debate they started. And their best friends in the NUS should do what best friends do: tell them to stop it, their politics
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for "services to equal opportunities". Writing in The
Guardian, she self-defined herself as a "republican with politics rooted in Marxism and feminism" and explained the apparent contradiction in accepting the award as:
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who in the early 1970s challenged the editor to break the paper's exclusive ties to the
Communist Party and the trade union movement, and open a dialogue with newly emerging social movements. After the appointment of
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Christopher Lillie, who had already been cleared of multiple charges in a criminal trial in 1994. They subsequently successfully sued the
Council, the "Independent Review Team" who produced the report, and the local
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And yet, getting gonged confers recognition of "citizens" contributions' to a good society – in my case equality – and the gesture affirms our necessity; the radicals – not the royalists – are the best of the
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in 1968. In London, she and Bobby
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feminism now "became a priority, not subordinate to some higher goal. It was a crucial part of redefining socialism". Campbell was one of a group of journalists on
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women's conference to mandate its officers to share no platform with Julie Bindel." Campbell concluded:
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Wigan Pier Revisited: Poverty and politics in the Eighties,
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Unofficial Secrets: Child Abuse – The Cleveland Case,
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