I remember the days when drink driving was commonplace - to my shame, I can clearly remember a lifetime ago frequently driving after three pints. Now, my instincts would stop me. Smoking too - it was so normal to smoke in restaurants, pubs, people's houses. Recently we have seen the tolerance of sexual harassment trickle down the drain.
Post Harvey Weinstein and in the midst of celebrating woman's suffrage, can we ride this wave of change and consign domestic abuse to the hall of shame? Scotland is pushing ahead - its parliament is introducing laws creating a new crime of emotional abuse - one stage further forward than the English law of 2015 that outlawed coercive control. Legislation helps, but it is never enough when the problem being tackled is deep-seated and cultural.
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