| Sumario: | Cox's plea for a less adversarial and more constructive form of debate is the theme of Deborah Cameron's article, 'Women, civility and the language of politics: realities and representations'. Why have we witnessed a truly appalling rise in abuse of women and girls during the current Covid-19 pandemic, a rise of abuse the UN has called a "shadow pandemic", and what the mayor of London, Sadiq Kahn, has called an "epidemic"? IN JULY 2021 the UK government published its I Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy i . For, as Cox observes, women in public life have borne the brunt of an upsurge of abuse, intimidation and assault and the consequences for our democracy are severe.
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