Ladies and gentlemen, your confected moral outrage du jour is….an actor who used to do porn daring to read a book in the same room as some children. Some of the more depressing and scandal-obsessed corners of the web are currently a-buzz over the news that Sasha Grey, a “porn legend” who moved into mainstream [...]
A primary school teacher has avoided being barred from teaching following revelations in the press of her sideline as a dominatrix, the TES reports. Faith-Anne Lesbirel, a primary school teacher, was exposed by a tabloid newspaper in 2008 as none other than ‘Mistress Saffron’, a dominatrix offering her services for money online. [Lesbirel] insisted her fetish activities [...]
The anti-smoking ban campaign group, Save our Pubs and Clubs are holding a competition to find the pub with the best smoking area. I can think of a few, but the ones I like best are, I believe, a little in breach of the law so perhaps, in their interests I will hold my peace. [...]
With broadband dominated by a few giant firms, it is easy for the likes of Ed Vaizey to leap-frog parliament and to regulate what we see. A few weeks back, the communications minister Ed Vaizey began leaning on broadband companies to block porn to all households other than those that proactively “opt in”. In doing [...]
As you might have noticed, my piece a while about Gareth Mead – the social housing manager suspended and humiliated over his sex life – has been getting quite a few comments lately. The reason being is that it was the piece I wrote was mentioned in Inside Housing – the social housing trade [...]
It’s well known that Allistair Darling is a regular visitor to The Third Estate, and with Labour’s budget due tomorrow I thought I would hit him with a last minute plea. For the sake of millions of low earners, cut the smoking tax now. It does not need repeating that the tax raised by smoking [...]
Tonight a man’s life and livelihood hangs in the balance. He has been savagely denigrated in the national press, and the most personal details of his life laid bare. And tonight he is suspended by his employer and looks set to be sacked. His crime? To engage in the wrong kind of sexual role play [...]
A collection has been set up by Old Holborn to help Hogan who is jail for non-payment of a huge fine. To donate click here. Pub landlord Nick Hogan has been jailed for 6 months over the smoking ban. Basically he was lumped with costs and fines totalling more than 10k after several breaches – [...]
The proposed equality bill has generated much debate – in particular the question of whether churches should be banned from discriminating on grounds of sexual orientation. Yet what strikes me is the sheer hypocrisy of these measures, from a government which has actively institutionalised such discrimination. Under laws that went into force last year, the [...]
OK I will admit it. The study I cited a few days ago – investigating the social costs of “passive non-smoking” – was not entirely factual. In fact you could go as far as to say that it did not exist and there is in fact no Professor Wyfman. What has however been recently released [...]
