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?…
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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…
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.…
Prison Writing
Watch the hands of young men in prison, moving pens across the page, and you see a story scrolled on their scarred fingers and bulging,…