Kira Cochrane – Women of the Revolution
Kira Cochrane’s latest book is a collection of “Forty years of the feminist movement as reported in the Guardian“. It includes: Mary Stott writing about…
Video Documentary on Morning Star
I was pleased to see someone had put my 1990 Arena documentary on the history of “Morning Star” onto Youtube. Here it is split into…
On Rosa Luxemburg
See my piece on Rosa Luxemburg in left foot forward, follow the link: http://www.leftfootforward.org/2011/03/womens-history-month-profiles-rosa-luxemburg/
ARMS AND THAT MAN…BLAIR…AND CAMERON
ARMS AND THAT MAN ….BLAIR …and CAMERON …. 24 February 2011 It is to be hoped that the ghost of Robin Cook is haunting the…
Friday February 18 2011 Hello, I’ve been out of it for a while. Writing my new book whilst catching up with the news in the Middle East – humans being amazing, again.
February 18 2011 KICK IT OUT Kick OUT Sexism in football – its been a long time coming, but its moment has finally arrived –…
5 October 2010 Prison isn’t working Two cheers for Ken Clarke. He’s the best available minister for justice. He thinks – before he’s read the…
This is what I did for my contribution last Monday to ABC Late Night Live
HIS WAY Tony Blair A Journey Hutchinson London September 2010 £25 There is little to be learned from Tony Blair’s memoir, A Journey…and yet, and…
Saville Report – What Happens Next
Northern Ireland doesn’t need prosecutions – it needs the state to open its books June 2010 The iconography of Northern Ireland is changing – and…
The Pensioner and the Penitent Sinner
Why was the encounter between Gordon Brown and Gillian Duffy in Rochdale so achingly uncomfortable? Not because he groaned ‘bigoted woman’ – he wasn’t wrong;…