What was meant to be a lovely weekend away, visiting my brother at Keele University has turned into a mini-disaster. This morning we awoke to find the entire campus covered in inches of snow. Buses and taxi services to and from the University have been cancelled. The train station is a […]
Archive for November, 2005
Findings of the Hansard Society report, Women on Top 2005, which examines the presence and role of women in political life today .
I really do. In fact I will go so far as to say that I hate smiley users. I hate them in that “guns don’t kill people, people kill people� kind of way. The only thing I probably hate more than smilies and their users are people who make sweeping generalisations. I am not that kind of person. I understand fully that not all smiley users are the same and that some clearly deserve to be hated more than others.
In my view smiley users can be divided into three groups. I have taken the time to list them in ascending order of deplorability.
Observations on being a ‘citizen of the world’ and its impact on my inability to freely use colloquialisms in spoken conversation. This blog post gives me a rare chance to ‘get away with’ using some of my favourite ones.
The compulsory sanitisation not just of women’s bodies and our emissions but even the language used to describe/discuss our bodies and emissions has my blood boiling - and no it’s not that time of the month!