In 2019 misandrist cancer charity Cancer Research UK quietly announced that it was dropping its 25 year ban preventing men from participating in its “Race for Life” fund-raising events. The media paid little attention to this development at the time, and what few reports that were published totally ignored the previous sexism of the charity,…

Earlier this week we reported on the tragic case of Grant Townsend, a young man from Hull who sadly took his own life after being falsely accused of rape. In the article we noted the lack of national media coverage of the case, highlighting in particular the public service obligations of the BBC to report…

We’ve extensively written about and researched the issue of false rape accusation here at HEqual, particularly fatal false rape accusations in the UK and regret to bring readers news of yet another such case. On Sunday, the Hull Daily Mail reported the news of the inquest into the death of Grant Townsend from Hull. Townsend…

Last night saw TV history made in the UK, with the BBC broadcasting a documentary titled “I am not a rapist”. Shown on BBC One, the 44 minute programme examined the cases of victims of false rape accusations, and very surprisingly for the BBC nowadays , it did a rather good job of it too.…

At HEqual our content is designed to be as unique as possible. We don’t republish content hosted elsewhere, nor do we reiterate other stories unless we can expand on them significantly and/or expose a new angle. In fact, were the media to do their jobs properly and report on men’s issues then the majority of…

In 2015, inspired by the BBC’s refusal to cover the tragic case of Jay Cheshire,  HEqual carried out a ground breaking audit of UK media coverage of fatal false rape accusations which resulted in the suicide of the victim. Our 2015 study showed that the BBC (and the Guardian) had failed to cover a single…

On Sunday, HEqual was the first outlet to report on the domestic violence of Liberal Democrat MP Layla Moran. The feminist Member of Parliament admitted to slapping her boyfriend at a conference over a lost computer cable. We’ve been very pleased with the reaction to Sunday’s article, it was the most popular such piece on…

In September 2016 we reported on how Labour’s Domestic violence spokesperson Sarah Champion MP had received a police caution as a result of her domestic violence against her husband. Astonishingly, Champion kept her job (she certainly has some hands-on experience in the field!) and was widely praised by her feminist colleagues for talking about her…