Wellies and Wisdom: How the Light Gets In
Back home. Mud to show for a mind-expanding sojourn at the HowTheLightGetsIn Festival at Hay, a parallel event to the annual book jamboree that takes…
Author: Beatrix Campbell
Scudamore: Sexism isn’t silly – c’mon football, kick it out!
Odd, isn’t it, that sexism is indulged as just silly? That’s how it seemed in my conversation on Radio 5 Live this week Richard Scudamore’s…
Violence in Vogue
Vogue Italia finds itself in an imbroglio about violence against women. Every year editor Franca Sozzani attempts a ‘political’ spread. She is alert to the…
Taking Liberties: Civil Liberties and Sexual Abuse
The Daily Mail ignores in its purported exposure — shaming — of Harriet Harman and the National Council for Civil Liberties over the organisation’s tolerance…
End of Equality
A book you have been waiting for! A book that joins the dots between neoliberalism and sexism, between equal pay, war zones, the veil, The…
Rape: Getting Away With It
In the aftermath of yet another woman’s death, following yet another rape trial acquittal, The Independent reported yet another scandal — hapless investigation and prosecution…
RIP Stuart Hall: A Great and Lovely Man
We have lost the living presence of the great and lovely Stuart Hall. So many of us have been transformed by his radical questions and answers.
Plebgate Morphs into Plodgate
Black Bodies, Women’s Bodies: Spectres Haunting the Police Representatives of the Police Federation are called to explain themselves to a Parliamentary committee in November 2013.…
A Very British Murder
Reports of the horrendous death of Bijan Ebrahimi — a disabled man living in Bristol — seem doomed to point in all the wrong directions.…
BBC Radio Festival 2013: Blah-Blah-Blah…Democracy
Very agreeable session yesterday with Rod Liddle and Adam Gee. Sparkling — though sparks did not fly!