• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • blog
  • About
  • Book Publications
  • Other Reading
  • Social Wall
  • Back Pages
  • Contact Me

Violence Reduction Unit

We need to talk about men and masculinities

March 22, 2021
We need to talk about men and masculinities Gerry Hassan Sunday National, March 21st 2021 In the aftermath of the Sarah Everard murder and vigil there has been widespread debate about male violence against women. Some has focused on immediate political issues - such as the Police Bill for England and Wales, and the UK Government’s focus on more severe penalties for attacking statues compared to violence against women. Over the week English and Welsh statistics bandied about showed a shameful level of rape convictions versus reported cases (2.6%), but it is not that

Continue Reading We need to talk about men and masculinities

Scotland’s Culture of Colluding with Violence

March 21, 2019
Scotland’s Culture of Colluding with Violence Gerry Hassan Scottish Review, March 20th 2019 Scotland was once infamous for its reputation and reality as a violent place. This was associated with all sorts of potent, demeaning caricatures of the angry, aggressive Scot, but underlying these images Scotland did have a problem. We had a culture of all too pervasive violence, a high murder rate with Glasgow earning the moniker ‘murder capital of Europe’, a problem with knife crime, and a wider attitude that it was too often permissible to solve differences by violence, including widespread violence against children. Much has changed

Continue Reading Scotland’s Culture of Colluding with Violence

After the Oxfam and Save the Children scandals what does it take to be a good organisation?

March 1, 2018
After the Oxfam and Save the Children scandals what does it take to be a good organisation? Gerry Hassan Scottish Review, February 28th 2018 The last few weeks have seen huge controversies surround the charity organisations Oxfam and Save the Children. In both senior men have been accused of acting inappropriately; in the case of Oxfam, involving the grotesque spectacle of Haitian disaster survivors being sexually exploited. It didn’t take long for this to become a political football. Elements of the right, such as Jacob Rees-Mogg, called for the UK international aid budget to be revisited, while former International Aid

Continue Reading After the Oxfam and Save the Children scandals what does it take to be a good organisation?

Primary Sidebar

categories

  • Blog
  • Events
  • Futures Thinking
  • International Conversations
  • Longer Essays
  • Short Essays
  • What Gerry's groovin' to
  • What Gerry's reading
FacebookTwitter

featured publication

A Better Nation

Click here to buy Gerry’s latest book.

what Gerry’s groovin’ to

My Musical Highlights of the Year

December 17, 2021

what Gerry’s reading

My Favourite Books of the Year 2021

December 15, 2021

tags

Scottish politics | Scottish Independence | Scottish Review | British politics | The Scotsman | Scottish Nationalists | Scottish Nationalism | Open Democracy | Nicola Sturgeon | Scottish Labour Party | Scottish society | Sunday National | The British State | Sunday Mail | Brexit | Boris Johnson | Social Democracy | Scottish National Party | Conservative Party | British Labour Party | Alex Salmond | Jeremy Corbyn | David Cameron | Popular Culture | The National | Scottish Parliament | Bella Caledonia | Scottish Media | Scottish Independence Referendum | British Conservatives | British Nationalism | Social Justice | Scottish Unionism | The Future of the Left | Scottish Men | 2021 Scottish Parliament elections | British Society | Scottish Culture | Football | CoronaVirus

Categories

Footer

about Gerry

Gerry Hassan is a writer, commentator and thinker about Scotland, the UK, politics and ideas.

More >

recent

  • How the 1970s began for me and how I was nearly written off at the age of five
  • Independence is not about process politics. It is about democracy
  • What Scotland’s big independence debate is about and should be about

search

FacebookTwitter

Terms of Use | Privacy Statement
Copyright © Gerry Hassan - writing, research, policy and ideas. All Rights Reserved.
Illustration and website design by Infinite Eye