
Revenge porn–posting explicit pictures of someone else online–is back in the limelight following the conviction in California earlier this month of Kevin Bollaert, the man responsible for a website specialising in hosting other people’s revenge porn. The conviction of Mr
by Jeremy Wilson12 Feb 2015, 6:39 AM PST0

For centuries, people with unusual obsessions and inclinations have found it hard to engage communally in their predilections, especially when the latter are of a somewhat taboo nature. But the Internet is changing things, perhaps not entirely for the better. Most
by Jeremy Wilson29 Jan 2015, 2:33 AM PST0

Women have it pretty bad in the West – but perhaps not for the reasons you imagine, if, say, you’re a regular reader of the Guardian or Jezebel. Because, although women in Asia and the Middle East have to navigate stonings for
by Jeremy Wilson9 Jan 2015, 1:32 AM PST0

We’ve all been there. 3.30pm on Christmas day. The turkey’s been eaten, the Queen’s speech has just finished and the third bottle of sherry has been cracked open. You’re just starting to settle down and put the world to rights
by Jeremy Wilson25 Dec 2014, 5:00 AM PST0

I am writing this from a small copse of stunningly tall redwood trees. But I’m not in California; I’m in Gloucestershire. The redwoods, a type of sequoia, were planted fifty years ago in the Forest of Dean in an arboretum,
by Jeremy Wilson11 Dec 2014, 8:27 AM PST0

“Who run the world?” asks Beyoncé in her recent hit song, before answering unequivocally: “Girls.” Her record was the first many had heard of this change of leadership–but it makes you think, doesn’t it? What would the world be like
by Jeremy Wilson4 Dec 2014, 12:51 AM PST0

My former Kernel colleague James Cook, Business Insider‘s intrepid European tech reporter, published a list of the “coolest” women in the UK technology industry this week. But I think he’s missed a trick. I mean, “cool” is such a subjective, nebulous thing,
by Jeremy Wilson2 Dec 2014, 6:15 AM PST0

Dr Brooke Magnanti, whom we recently exposed both for sockpuppeting to smear other female writers and plagiarising Wikipedia in the Telegraph, has claimed she worked as a prostitute in London for eighteen months between 2003 and 2004. She wrote about this
by Jeremy Wilson2 Oct 2014, 7:15 AM PST0

by Jeremy Wilson18 Sep 2014, 4:28 AM PST0

The Holy Month of Ramadan is upon us. Most people know the month-long fast is a time Muslims are expected to demonstrate self-control, humility and submission to the will to Allah. What you might not know is that throughout Ramadan
by Jeremy Wilson7 Jul 2014, 5:57 AM PST0