It's Not A Zero Sum Game

   1. Assume that people are competent, intelligent and are trying to do the right thing . And I don’t mean “pay lip service to that assu...

   So there was this very interesting series of tweets from Dusty this morning, which I briefly storified: [ View the story "  ...

Tom Chivers had this great piece in the Telegraph this week, where he repeated a suggestion from Caitlin Moran to men who think that workp...

  I felt this Lindy West piece on "sexism fatigue" so, so hard today. Especially the bit where she talks about how doggone exhau...

  I don't know why I've been thinking about this today - maybe it's the Israeli elections and the fact that I had an opportunit...

I've not really written on this topic before, because my views were not very strongly formed for one thing, but also because it's o...

   Some people are kind of gross, you know? It's not nice to say it, but they just are. You look at them and you imagine that they prob...

   I had a conversation recently with a representative from an organisation that helps women obtain access to contraception and abortion...

Well well.  An elected politician in the US provided a helpful distinction between "legitimate" rape, by which presumably he mea...

   To those not in the know, I'm spending the summer in Salvador, Bahia state, Brazil, volunteering in community projects through an or...

  A couple of years ago, Hilary Lawson, the  director of the Institute of Art and Ideas, wrote this piece in the Guardian about the accusa...

This week it emerged that that Health Secretary A ndrew Lansley has instructed the Care Quality Commission  to expedite inspections of abo...

I'm just about the world's worst graphic designer, so even though I've been sitting on this idea for ever, I haven't posted...

   A few weeks ago, at the hazy pink dawn of the current soap opera cum circus show that is the US contraception "debate", Amanda...