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The media refuse to name male violence against women in their reporting – and this harms our society
Two men whose mother and sister were murdered by their father have written a new book to improve awareness of the gendered nature of domestic abuse and how it should be viewed as a national and international health crisis. RUTH HUNT reports
Murdered: Charlotte and Claire Hart
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The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
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LUKE and Ryan Hart were both working abroad when the news came through that their much-loved younger sister Charlotte and mother Claire had been murdered by their father who had then turned the murder weapon on himself.
Two years later and the brothers have written Operation Lighthouse, which looks at events leading up to the double murder — the life the family were forced to live, with their father using various methods of coercive control.
In particular, Luke and Ryan focus on the role the media played in the aftermath and how this can feed into constructs of masculinity, endangering women and children.
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