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?…
Author: Beatrix Campbell
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…
Kira Cochrane – Women of the Revolution
Kira Cochrane’s latest book is a collection of “Forty years of the feminist movement as reported in the Guardian“. It includes: Mary Stott writing about…
Video Documentary on Morning Star
I was pleased to see someone had put my 1990 Arena documentary on the history of “Morning Star” onto Youtube. Here it is split into…