There’s always a risk when you hold other people up as icons that at some point they’ll do or say something to shatter all your previously held illusions about them. I know for instance that a lot of women, particularly younger women, have felt betrayed by the quite odious position Naomi Wolf has chosen to take on the Assange case (I made my own view clear on that in this comment on her recent CiF piece), but as I’ve never held Wolf up as any great feminist icon, I couldn’t really share in that disappointment. With Helena Kennedy though it’s a different matter. Because I’ve long been a fan of hers. And now I just feel let down. When I first saw that Kennedy … Continue reading Ohhh Helena….