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Why Come to the Great Gender Debate?

For over 100 years – actually, probably for over a thousand – women have been fighting for equal rights in most societies around the world. That experience means that women already active in such campaigns have a natural affinity for other disadvantaged groups when they stand up for their own rights. So where did what…
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On achieving unity in the midst of battle

Like many women recently, I’ve just seen my life implode. This, surprisingly perhaps, is a good thing.
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No Post Today

Have you noticed just how many services and facilities just shut down the minute their managers saw snow falling from the sky?
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origami poems and towering stories from Earlyworks Press

The Earlyworks Press anthology origami poems and towering stories – release date, 12th December
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If you didn’t get your fingers in the sparkle jar right away…

First Greta Thunberg, then Chris Packham – What is this, ‘be mean to ASD people’ month? This is a re-posting of my piece about Chris Packham’s book, along with links to a petition defending him.
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Bookshops of the Borders

Bookshops of the Borders – NOT Borders Bookshops, which are (or were) something else.
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On reviewing a book I haven’t read

Well I’ve never done this before. The book is Citizen Clem by John Bew. The pic at the top of this article is from the Ken Loach film, Spirit of ’45. When you’ve read this book review, if you’re interested in all the talk of Jeremy Corbyn being like (or not like) Clement Attlee, I…
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It’s not the end of the world… or is it?

I put a status update on Facebook expressing my frustration about all these EU experts around me thinking Brexit is a more important issue than all the lives that are falling apart and being lost around us right now.
