IRON LADY
From my book: THE IRON LADIES Virago 1987 Margaret Thatcher’s friends and enemies would say: she’s just like a man! She is the best man…
Author: Beatrix Campbell
Margaret Thatcher is Dead
Barack Obama said that Margaret Thatcher was an iconic role model for our daughters. Wrong. Obama’s election as the first black president of the United…
SISTERS OF NO MERCY — WHEN WILL CONTI AND SCOTTISH CATHOLIC HIERARCHY TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR ABUSE OF ORPHANS?
Ten years ago I wrote this story: the eloquent voices of Nazareth House orphans. The Catholic Church took no responsibility then for sexual abuse, harm…
HEROINES AND HUBRIS
Kick ‘em, brush ‘em off, ignore ‘em. But DON’T change ‘em. Men. Since when have so many women have been urged to be so violent?…
Mantel’s Right Royal Calumny
Oh what a mighty calumny Hilary Mantel has caused. Her ravishing, slightly odd, fastidious, eloquent, essay on suits, frocks, fabrics and royal bodies in the…
JODIE FOSTER FOREVER — THE ACCUSED
Jodie Foster answers the eternal question, “Am I gay?”, when she comes out in 2013, almost a quarter of a century after her magnificent movie…
PHOBIAS, PROFANITIES and CENSORS
Wild twittering about what exactly….? CAN THIS BE FEMINISM? http://www.dailydot.com/society/suzanne-moore-julie-burchill-transphobia/ Here’s my own take on bans, prohibitions and Julie Bindel being proscribed by NUS for…
JIMMY SAVILE: MORAL PANICS THE BIG SOCIETY and HOW SOCIETY WAS GROOMED BY A PROLIFIC PREDATOR
No sooner does child abuse get aired than we are warned against witchhunts, obsession, and hysteria. Always. It is happening again; it is de rigueur.…
WHEN IS COLLUSION CONSPIRACY?
The Finucane family get the de Silva Report, December 2012 WHEN is a ‘conspiracy’ only ‘collusion’? And when is collusion only normal life? Sir…
Murdoch’s Money and Metropolitan Police Madness
There is no way that Rupert Murdoch’s proposed offer of around 3 million to the Dowler family can be anything but unsettling. The money, mighty…