Has the Fawcett Society gone quite mad? Yesterday, they published the report Are women bearing the burden of the recession? Now, I’m quite open to the argument that the answer to that question might be yes. Fawcett goes further however, claiming that “this is, literally, a man-made recession.” The report itself qualifies this slightly: It… Continue reading Caveman politics from Fawcett
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F***in’ Ada!
(with apologies for the title – in my defence I was chanelling the spirit of Ian Dury at the time) I enthusiastically signed up to Suw Charman-Anderson‘s Ada Lovelace Day pledge and now I have a dilemma: who do I blog about? I’m wracking my brains to think of someone and am struggling. This in… Continue reading F***in’ Ada!
Lembit Opik: real men hate women
I wasn’t going to blog about Lembit’s new column (fnarr! fnarr! snork!) – I figure I’ve fulfilled my quota of Lembit bashing for the year. But then he went and said something stupid: “This is part of my own stated objective to reach beyond the normal political limits to people who may not be particularly… Continue reading Lembit Opik: real men hate women