Prostitution and the World Cup

Posted by on Feb 8, 2008 in updates | 13 comments South African MP George Lekgetho has called for prostitution to be legalised during the football World Cup to be held there in 2010. He believes it would help cut incidences of rape and would bring in taxes to fight poverty. But my CHASTE colleague Carol Freeman suggests a different perspective and argues why this is not the answer: Last week, George Lekgetho, when arguing for the legalisation...
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Can Labour run an effective social media campaign?

Posted by on Feb 8, 2008 in updates | 3 comments I recently contributed an article on political blogging to Richard Bailey for the next publication of Behind the Spin. I naturally mentioned how Labour lagged behind Conservative bloggers, who have fire in their bellies and have dominated the political blogging scene, as any opposition party hungry for success would. Since then, I have been informed of LabourHome’s intention to use its blog...
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