Ken Clarke recently announced plans to end the right to compensation for prisoners injured in custody. The arguments in favour seem simple: prisoners have committed a crime, which negates their right to certain protections - including, seemingly, their protection from violence. This sends a clear message that prisoners...

If there is anything worth fighting for, it is knowledge. From the spark which lit the first fire tens of thousands of years ago, to the stone tools used by early humans to hunt and build, to the ideas which gave us democracy and ethics, to the revolutions in coal...

What first struck me about the Facebook 'rape' pages is not what they say, but who they speak for. 'You know she's playing hard to get when your chasing her down an alleyway' frames the reader as the perpetrator of that act. Suddenly it becomes acceptable,...