I could get incredibly angry about this, but I guess at least the fact that it's come out means it's being addressed. From the Guardian:
One of Britain's most prolific sexual predators was allowed to remain free to drug, rape and assault more than 100 women over six years after police repeatedly failed to respond to the complaints of his victims....
Police were last night bracing themselves for more women to come forward. They have received 85 complaints so far and believe that over his 13-year career as a London taxi driver he could have drugged and attacked more than 100 female passengers.
The watershed case has exposed serious failings in the way police treat allegations of rape and sexual assault and comes despite years of high-profile policies and promises to improve rape conviction rates that stick at less than 6%.
Campaigners said the details of how police failed to apprehend Worboys for six years, despite receiving numerous complaints from women, exposed the fact that frontline officers remained sexist, dismissive of allegations of sexual assaults and ultimately guilty of "sabotaging" rape inquiries.
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Scotland Yard announced that after reviewing the case there will be a fundamental change in the way rape and serious sexual assaults are investigated. In future the investigation of all rapes will come under the control of a centralised unit and no longer be run by local borough commanders.
If you can't be bothered reading reports, this is a nice video summary.
Is Al Murray's gay Nazi homophobic?:
Insulting gay stereotypes are back in vogue in comedy, decades after properly being consigned to their graves alongside shabby and derogatory portrayals of other minorities. ... Gays aren't getting bashed physically, but verbally the onslaught is unremitting. "Stop being so gay." "That's a bit gay mate." "Don't be such a poof." All these crop up on chat shows and comedies with a knowing laugh. ... Just as it is on the school playground and just as it has been sanctioned by the BBC with presenters such as Chris Moyles and Jeremy Clarkson, "gay" has become an acceptable insult, and one we are all being invited to laugh along with. If we don't, we're accused of being "politically correct": a neat way to silence your critics.
There's the usual rash of anti-PC brigade rubbish in the comments section but there are also some really good comments: "It may be postmodern for "gay" to mean rubbish AND homosexual, but gay people no longer have a word to describe themselves which doesn't have a negative connotation. This is a triumph of homophobia."
I've been thinking about a guerrilla 'homophobia is gay' campaign, with stickers with QR tags that yield a summary of research that shows '80 percent of men who are homophobic have secret homosexual feelings', but I'm not sure how well it would work out there. I've found asking homophobes hassling me in real life whether they're one of the 80% has been effective in the past, but maybe that's just because they're not used to being challenged. Whaddya reckon?
"In Prof. Adams's test, homophobic men who said they were exclusively heterosexual were shown gay sex videos. Four out of five became sexually aroused by the homoerotic imagery, as recorded by a penile circumference measuring device (a plethysmograph)." (Source for quote, original reference 'Is Homophobia associated with Homosexual Arousal?', U.S. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, (1996, Vol. 105, no. 3, pp. 440-445)).