Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, 2024 parliamentary candidate for North Durham, 2028 candidate for Mayor of the North East Mayoral Combined Authority, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", banned from Twitter so officially more dangerous than the Taliban, eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Monday 18 September 2006
The 1960s
I have been asked with which specific changes in the 1960s I disagree. So let me say, first, that I support the abolition of capital punishment, though not for any reason to do with miscarriages of justice, since that was not why it was abolished in the first place. And secondly, that I support the decriminalisation of male homosexual acts between consenting adults in private, a reform predating by several years the rise of the gay movement (the roots of which are in the abuse of teenage boys), which can claim no credit for it.
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