sexual abuse

A David and Goliath battle involving a billion-dollar pornography website

20 July 2024 9:00 am

Laila Mickelwait appears to wage a one-woman crusade to shut down a major distributor of rape and child abuse videos

The ordeal of sitting for my father Lucian Freud

8 June 2024 9:00 am

Rose Boyt describes posing naked over many nights – supplied with purple hearts by Freud to keep her awake – and her shock on finally seeing the result

My prep school scarred me for life

6 April 2024 9:00 am

‘A part of me died at school’, Charles Spencer writes in his shockingly stark account of sadism and sexual abuse at Maidwell Hall, Northamptonshire, in the 1970s

Conduct unbecoming: clockwise from top left, Leonard Bernstein, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Charles Dutoit and James Levine

The sex lives of conductors

20 January 2018 9:00 am

I once knew a great conductor who claimed that he never boarded a plane to a new orchestra without a…

Portrait of the week

13 February 2016 9:00 am

Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, said that if Britain left the European Union, France could stop allowing British officials…

Rotherham has proved it again: social work just doesn't work

30 August 2014 9:00 am

The appalling abuse in Rotherham suggests it does not

Portrait of the week

18 January 2014 9:00 am

Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, said that English local authorities would be allowed to receive all the business rates…

What are we supposed to say when a grooming ring comes to light?

7 September 2013 9:00 am

It is a tragedy that some of us are born in the wrong times. According to that increasingly gobby conduit…