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Jo Maugham QC
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Prostitution in Spain was decriminalised. Now around 300,000 women work as prostitutes of whom the Spanish Govt estimates up to 90% are trafficked.

This is the commoditisation of human flesh and blood on an industrial scale - by a first world neighbour.
theguardian.com/global-develop…
Link via @sarahditum.
(There are estimated to be around 73,000 prostitutes in the UK - we don't seem to have the faintest idea what proportion are trafficked google.com/url?sa=t&sourc…).
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A really important tonic to what you were told yesterday about structural failures in family courts.

Children deserve better than policy from anecdote.
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'We might be pretty dreadful but we're not as bad as Farage' is a pitch I keep seeing from Labour. But if you reward it, if you vote for 'pretty dreadful,' you'll get the politics you deserve.
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