Letter to the Working Class Movement Library
Dear Trustees, I’m writing to you to support the Library’s invitation to Julie Bindel to speak about being a young working class lesbian. It was…
Category: Current Affairs
Corbynism
What would it take for the biggest political party in Western Europe to be accorded a bit of respect? Will the mass media reports from…
TRANS/formations
Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse, transgender debates have got — if not worse exactly, then — nastier. The description ’transphobic’ has been thrown…
Leon Brittan — who needs an apology now?
Tory grandees, former ministers and yesterday’s men queue up to denounce the police for investigating sexual abuse allegations against members of the Tory establishment. They…
Hilary Benn – Thinking About War
The Parliamentary debate on bombing IS/Daesh in Syria was brought to an intense and rousing conclusion by Hilary Benn, Shadow Foreign Secretary. It was Benn…
Talking of Losers and Scumbags
Former Daily Mirror editor, and unrequited lover of US television, Piers Morgan, is settling into ITV’s breakfast slot. Expect more of the eloquent bile he…
Men and Lads: Playboy nods to the cultural revolution
When Peter Stringfellow tells you that you are a ‘lovely lady’ you know that your are either in the wrong job, or the wrong conversation…
For a Day in July 2014…
FOR A DAY in July 2014, the advocates of children in care institutions who have been sexually abused by adults — including suspects shielded from…
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…