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.
Category: News
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.…
The Guardian: The Legacy of Greenham Common has outlived Margaret Thatcher
My latest piece for The Guardian: The Legacy of Greenham Common has outlived Margaret Thatcher
Late Night Live: The Formidable Mrs Thatcher
I’m a regular contributor to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s nightly flagship arts and current affairs programme Late Night Live. Here’s my latest discussion alongside Matthew…
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…
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…
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…
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.…