The Coward’s Retreat: When Trolls Go After Your Job In the landscape of online discussion, it’s remarkable how quickly the true character of a debate reveals itself. Most people, whatever their views, stay in the open. They argue, respond, question, and defend….

The Press Decides the Villain Long Before the Court Decides Anything There’s a mood that settles over Glasgow when a sexual allegation makes the news. You see it in the quick glance at the headline boards on London Road or Hope Street. Half a second and the opinion’s…

When Pressure, Memory and Policing Collide: How Ordinary Relationship Moments Become Criminal Allegations After a Breakup Accused.Scot — December 2025 If you’ve ever been in a long relationship, you’ll know how uneven real life is. Some days feel easy. Other days…

Two Truths That Can Co-Exist: Why Justice for Victims and Fairness for the Accused Must Go Hand in Hand Accused.Scot — December 2025 The debate around sexual allegations has become so toxic that any attempt at nuance gets shut down immediately. Say one thing that…

Abertay Didn’t Defend Academic Freedom — It Walked Away From It Abertay University’s reaction to the JIMS talk has created a row that didn’t need to exist. It didn’t come from extremism, illegality, or anything remotely dangerous. It began because a handful of loud…

The Courts Applied Scotland’s Rape Shield Laws Wrong Now Innocent Men Are Rotting in Jail By Accused.Scot 14 November 2025 Last night, in a packed Glasgow hall, two of Scotland’s sharpest legal minds – Thomas Ross KC and Angela Gray KC – dissected the UK Supreme…

Supreme Court Forces Correction on Scots Judges: Fair Trials Must Come Before Fashion A landmark judgment today from the UK Supreme Court has corrected a flawed common law approach and clarified how Scottish courts must handle sexual-offence trials… Scotland’s…

| When Graffiti Replaces Argument: Scotland’s Struggle With Free Inquiry | In any healthy society, a lecture hall should be a place of light, a space where questions are asked without fear and ideas are tested by reason, not punished by rage. Yet in Dundee last week,…

When Research Becomes Heresy:The Paradox of Dr Stuart Waiton and JIMS How Scotland’s culture of outrage now punishes those who defend fairness ♦ Dr Stuart Waiton’s paper The Empathy Trap is not an act of provocation. It is an act of scholarship, an attempt to examine,…

= When Outrage Replaces Inquiry: The Abertay Episode and Scotland’s Fear of Free Thought =   The firestorm begins Abertay University became the latest battlefield in Scotland’s crisis of critical thought when a criminology class invited a speaker from Justice for…