Does Diane Abbott speak for me?
An almighty race row broke out yesterday following a tweet by Diane Abbott MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington. The tweet said “White people love playing divide and rule and we should not play their game”. This was part of an exchange between her and journalist Bim Adewunmi you can follow the exchange on [...]
Challenging stereotypes
I recently had an interesting meeting with a high profile entrepreneur/investor who was looking to forge a partnership. Half way through our conversation, she stopped me and said, “Make no mistake about it, we’re not interested in average one man band/selling from home type businesses, we’re interested in businesses who are really going to make [...]
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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