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We live in a one-way shame culture

Anyone who has ever published a book and been dismayed by an anonymous review online will have cheered inwardly at the story of David Wilson. Professor Wilson is a criminologist and historian who has published several books. Each of his books has received a scathing one-star review on Amazon from a pseudonymous critic calling himself ‘Junius’. The

Letters: The public has been bamboozled by the blurring of guidance and law

Credit: Jeremy Selwyn/Evening Standard  SIR – Your recent leader and letters (May 25) drew attention to the multiple nonsenses emanating from Whitehall – particularly the ruling on amateur choirs. Yesterday there was also further confusion over travel rules. What the public needs is a guide on which of the Government’s pronouncements are merely advice and which have the force of law. I fear that we have become so supine during the pandemic and the lockdowns that we are losing the confidence to trust our own judgment. Edward Sharp   SIR – The suggestion that our freedoms will be curtailed beyond June 21 (“Vaccine not enough to avoid self-isolating”, report, May 25) has nothing to do with protection from the virus and everything to do with extending control over us.

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Dame Barbara Stocking is replaced as Cambridge college president

Dame Barbara Stocking, 69, is being replaced as president of the women-only Murray Edwards College in Cambridge University Dame Barbara Stocking is being replaced as president of her Cambridge University college more than a year after damning report into the Oxfam sex scandal under her leadership was released. The 69-year-old was the chief executive of Oxfam during the charity s sex scandal in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake which broke three years ago. She has been head of the women-only Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, since 2013. Yet she was mired in scandal when an investigation by the Times in 2018 reported sexual exploitation of women in Haiti by Oxfam staff after the 2010 earthquake.