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…
Commissioner Baird: A Pioneer
Vera Baird begins her rather remarkable book about her first term as Northumbria’s elected Police and Crime Commissioner with a story about rape. That is…
Election in Ireland: The dirty war and sexual abuse in the Adams family
Ireland prepares to surprise itself in the 2016 election to its Dail (parliament) on 26th February — an election in which, like elsewhere in Europe, smaller…
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…
CONSERVATIVE CAD – Cecil Parkinson Ruined Sara Keays
PUBLIC MAN, PRIVATE HAREM The Conservative Party mourns the death in January 2016 of one of its great players, Cecil Parkinson. He contributed greatly to…
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…
Wolf-Whistles: What They Really Mean
Earlier than usual — maybe 7.30 am — the BBC rang: What did I think about the woman who’d gone to the police over a wolf-whistle…
