The Abuse Trail

How our warnings about evidence-free policies turned us into targets

In the next few months, as summer rolls on, we will try to summarise the abuse we have endured in the last four years for doing our jobs.

The reasons are diverse.

On a personal level, abuse is not pleasant. When family members are aware of it, that’s even worse. When you are fired from a position you have held for a decade, that’s also difficult to deal w…