Illegal Immigration: would you report your neighbour?
Always a favourite hobby-horse of politicians and journalists, it seems that immigration, and illegal immigration in particular, is rarely out of the news these days: barely a day goes by without someone fanning the flames of fear and suspicion for their own ends. UK Prime Minister David Cameron recently gave a speech about his plans [...]
390,000 Jedis there are #starwarsday
in the UK, according to the last census. In fact, Brighton was recorded as having the highest proportion of Jedi – with 2.6 percent of the population – and one of them was my own husband, Ryan. (details from Wikipedia, except for the part about Ryan) Image by Official Star Wars Blog via Flickr It [...]
We can have it all. Can’t we?
“Can women have it all?” I find I get angry about discrimination around racism, homophobia, religion and disability, and for some reason less so about sexism. After all, things are so much better than they were, aren’t they? Women are able to work in all sorts of professions previously closed to them, and generally we’re [...]
All that jazz – All in A Day
If I sat down and really thought about what I could achieve in a single day, I might be able to come up with some interesting challenges that I think might be possible…. but record a whole album? Well that would probably not be one of them, even if I had the requisite talents. But [...]
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