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Category Archives: news
The Daily Mail’s lesson of the day is “The smaller they are, the harder you kick ‘em.”
Stop the press! – life’s certainties have been updated: they now include death, taxes, and the Daily Mail trotting out a dollop of poorly-written hate speech directed against the most vulnerable group imaginable. Each time the Daily Mail does this, … Continue reading
It turns out “us” includes “them”: marriage, bigotry and cheese.
I kind of get it, the furore about opening up marriage to everyone. Let me explain it using the medium of cheese. We all understand cheese. Let’s say there was this little village, and historically the village made cheese. It … Continue reading
A different point of view on the Moore thing.
For the full background on this story, you might like to read Suzanne Moore’s original piece about the importance of female anger in the New Statesman here, followed by @Stavvers’ breakdown of who subsequently said what, here (brace yourself, Moore … Continue reading
Occupied premises.
The telly is on. Your eldest is deeply involved in her mobile phone. The middle one is doing homework – reluctantly – at the dining table, and the youngest one is running a brightly coloured plastic car across your face, … Continue reading
Andy, you’re going to die alone.
What. A. Dick. Head. Seriously, go and read that. I’ll wait. *drums fingers on table* Are you done? Good. I’m going to tell you precisely why the borderline (borderline?) psychopath who wrote that piece is going to die alone, and … Continue reading
The big gay witch-hunt: what it says about our understanding of rape.
It is perhaps a subtle point, but what troubles me most about the people who ignorantly conflate “gay” and “paedophile” isn’t so much the obvious homophobia of it, as the implication that raping children is somehow an extension of, or … Continue reading
Two things that would completely change this country for the better.
1) We want the rich – both individuals and companies – to be taxed on the basis advertised to and applied to the rest of us. In other words, if I cannot have my wages paid directly into an offshore … Continue reading
Posted in news, this year
Tagged companies, corporations, offshore, pmqs, tax, transparency
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The #NoMorePage3 campaign and why it is the right target.
About a week ago, some idiot on Twitter decided to take issue with me about the No More Page 3 campaign, which I support with great enthusiasm. Then several of the idiot’s friends turned up to make the same point … Continue reading
Posted in news, this year
Tagged bigotry, boobs, breasts, equality, feminism, gender roles, glamour modelling, misandry, misanthropy, NoMorePage3, sexism
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A real Olympic legacy.
There’s much talk of Olympic legacy at the moment – the carrying of the torch – and the bluntest minds jump on the bluntest version of that legacy. In their unseemly rush for column inches (another competitive boys’ sport, of … Continue reading
Reasons to be glad Louise Mensch has gone / Reasons to be sad Louise Mensch has gone.
Reasons to be glad Louise Mensch has gone: 1) She was a cheerleader for Cameron and Murdoch. While one expects support for the PM from any Tory to some degree, Mensch’s cheerleading was often in flagrant disregard of the facts … Continue reading
Posted in news, this year
Tagged chloe smith, conservative, feminism, feminist, louise mensch, mensch, sexism, theresa may, tory
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