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Hello and welcome to the Spiked Podcast. I'm Fraser Myers and joining me this week as ever we have spiked deputy editor Tom Slater

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Coming up on the show The Sarah Sarah Everard tragedy, the ban on protests and the EU's vaccine

chaos.

It began as a tribute to Sarah Everard, but it has become about so much more.

It is thankfully incredibly rare for a woman to be abducted from our streets.

So why do so many women still feel so scared?

But women don't matter as much as cars, we don't matter as much as fly tipping,

we don't matter as much as statues and the law needs to change that.

33 year old Sarah Everard went missing two weeks ago as she was walking through Clapham Common. Last week, human remains were found in a woodland in Kent. A metropolitan police officer has been charged.

He's accused of kidnap and murder. Everard's death has sent shock waves through Britain.

Although few facts about the case are known, there's been a concerted effort by politicians and activists to frame the tragedy as symptomatic of a deeply misogynistic society, where male violence against women is both common and accepted.

There have been debates over whether to institute a curfew for men.

Police will start treating misogyny as a hate crime, and the government has put funding towards street lighting and has plans to put plain closed police officers in nightclubs.

Joanna Williams joins us down the line for this section. Joanna is a spiked columnist, Director of the Think Tank

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