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…
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…
R-E-S-P-E-C-T me and never hit me!
Girls and boys and violence We need a soul revival to spread the word of Aretha Franklin’s great 1967 hit – one of the…
Did the British state collude in the killing of three unarmed republicans?
Sam Marshall’s assassination in 1990 Now we know the security services were there. The only people who knew that three men were signing on…
Ahhhh, draft of my new book sent to publisher. I’m back!
I’ve been preoccupied for the last couple of months finishing my new book, End of equality.
November 30 Pensions Strike – ‘Haves and Have-Nots’ infers wrong lesson from irrelevant comparison
Just had a head-to-head with the Tory commentator Dominic Lawson on the Jeremy Vine show: discussing the public sector pensions strike. He proposes that the…