Ex-Sale star whose career was ruined by woman's lies rebuilds life as pilot
Marland Yarde, who played for Sale Sharks, saw his life ruined by a woman's false accusations
29 August 2026
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Michael Jackson ‘Second Family’ Child Sex Trafficking Lawsuit Tossed Out of Court
A federal judge sent the Cascio siblings' child sex trafficking claims against the Michael Jackson estate to confidential arbitration, holding that the terms of their 2019 settlement leave him no discretion.
13 August 2026
Craig McLachlan under siege
Bettina Arndt on the continuing campaign against Craig McLachlan after he was found not guilty of 13 charges.
9 April 2026
The Epstein scandal has morphed into a moral panic
Brendan O'Neill argues the Epstein scandal has morphed into a moral panic, cancelling men for the flimsiest of connections.
6 February 2026
Bodycam: 'MeToo' accuser raided
Bodycam footage shows the police raid on a MeToo accuser as questions mount over her celebrity abuse claims.
3 October 2025
Vanessa Scammell denounces #MeToo campaign that ruined Australian actor Craig McLachlan's career
Vanessa Scammell denounces the #MeToo campaign that ruined Craig McLachlan's career and the erosion of the presumption of innocence.
27 December 2024
Jarryd Hayne's Successful Sexual Assault Appeal: The Reasoning Behind the Judgment
The reasoning behind Jarryd Hayne's successful sexual assault appeal after three trials and two overturned verdicts.
17 June 2024
Russell Brand investigation: what good journalists should have to go through to report sexual assault allegations
An expert on media law explains how newspapers avoid defamation when investigating a story.
20 September 2023
Kevin Spacey has been found not guilty of sexual assault, but will his career recover?
Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey has been cleared of multiple sexual assault charges. Some say he faces an uphill struggle to return to his previous position as a top-ranking star.
27 July 2023
Jonathan King on Prince Andrew, EMI and a Corrupted Justice System
Jonathan King on Prince Andrew, EMI and a corrupted justice system, and the campaign he says was built to stop him.
21 March 2023
Scenes from a Marriage
In 2020, a British High Court judge ruled that actor Johnny Depp was probably a “wife beater.” In 2022, an American jury disagreed. Who got it right?
18 January 2023
'Sextortion' cases against CEOs, celebs explode
Wealthy executives and celebrities increasingly turn to lawyers to fight sextortion plots demanding tens of thousands for silence.
25 July 2022
Rolf is innocent OK
One of the biggest miscarriages of justice in Britain during the present century has been the conviction of the entertainer Rolf Harris following several…
21 July 2022
Amber Heard, Michele Dauber, Emily Doe & #MeToo
Recent tweets by Stanford Law Professor and Amber Heard supporter, Michele Dauber, have viciously attacked Johnny Depp’s attorney Camille Vasquez. Dauber…
3 July 2022
Sir Cliff Richard: Singer feared dying of heart attack after facing child sex assault claims
The singer, who was never arrested or found guilty and strongly denied the claims, was publicly named in a child sex allegation after a police raid on his home in 2014. He is now campaigning for a change in the law so that suspects are only named once they have been charged.
8 June 2022
The jury verdict in the Depp-Heard case: A telling, deserved blow to the #MeToo witch-hunt
A Fairfax County jury found for Johnny Depp against Amber Heard — a significant defeat for the #MeToo witch-hunt and a victory for the presumption of innocence and due process.
3 June 2022
Robert Buckland: Suspected sex offenders should be granted anonymity to protect reputations
The former Justice Secretary says the move would prevent innocent people from having their lives ‘trampled over’
29 May 2022
Rolf Harris Book
A review of a book arguing that people will lie about sexual abuse, and that the motive is generally money.
21 May 2022
Actor Johnny Depp’s testimony exposes unsubstantiated #MeToo allegations by Amber Heard
Four days into Johnny Depp’s defamation trial against Amber Heard, his testimony paints a very different picture from the #MeToo allegations that damaged his acting career.
23 April 2022
Public are losing faith in police watchdog following wave of scandals including the disastrous VIP child sex abuse inquiry, MPs say
Speaking out: Lady Brittan is seeking justice over the treatment of her husband, the former Home Secretary Leon Brittan, after false allegations were made…
1 March 2022
Will Prince Andrew call a false-memory expert? Professor who testified for Ghislaine Maxwell thinks he might
Prince Andrew has denied allegations made against him by Virginia Giuffre
10 February 2022
Jimmy Savile: ITV Savile mendacity part 2
To mark the tenth anniversary of his death ITV have broadcast another gratuitous ‘documentary’ about Jimmy Savile, Portrait of a Predator. Needless to say, it…
25 October 2021
Guilty Cosby going free is a win for due process
Gabriel Malor argues Bill Cosby going free is a vindication of the right to due process rather than of Cosby himself.
30 June 2021
Kevin Spacey and the rise of uncancel culture
Peter Bradshaw on Kevin Spacey and the rise of 'uncancel culture' for famous men never criminally convicted.
25 May 2021
Judge notes possible 'self-entitled sense of humour', but finds McLachlan not guilty of assaults
Actor Craig McLachlan is found not guilty of all seven charges of indecent assault and six charges of common assault in the Melbourne Magistrates' Court.
15 December 2020
Nick Cave: 'cancel culture is bad religion run amuck'
Nick Cave criticises cancel culture as 'bad religion run amuck' with an asphyxiating effect on society's creative soul.
12 August 2020
Geoffrey Rush case: Daily Telegraph and Nationwide News lose defamation appeal against actor
Oscar winner to be awarded full $2.9m in damages after judges reject all publisher’s grounds of appeal
2 July 2020
#MeToo: Harvey Weinstein’s nemesis Ronan Farrow ‘too good to be true’
In less than three years Ronan Farrow has become the most widely admired journalist in America for a series of scoops that began with an explosive story about…
19 May 2020
The New York Times gloats over the destruction of “the Monster” Weinstein
Weinstein’s conviction has established the “breakthrough” principle that a criminal conviction can be secured without reliable and verifiable evidence. The working class and poor will suffer the consequences.
26 February 2020
Henriques report into Operation Midland: Met ‘broke law’ over Carl Beech abuse case
Sir Richard Henriques’s review found Met officers unlawfully misled a judge to obtain warrants against public figures falsely accused by Carl Beech.
5 October 2019
Operation Midland: how the police fell for VIP abuse fantasist
The Met had vowed not to shy from historical sex abuse after the Jimmy Saville scandal
5 October 2019
Carl Beech: Liar, fraudster and paedophile
For 18 months Carl Beech was the star witness in a Met inquiry into a VIP paedophile ring that never existed. He was jailed for 18 years in 2019.
26 July 2019
A son speaks out
Moses Farrow's first-person account of life inside Mia Farrow's household, and why he says the 1992 allegation against Woody Allen never happened.
23 May 2018
Yewtree: more propaganda than police investigation
The failure of a few prosecutions won't stop the crusade.
19 February 2014