in brief
London-based writer and grammar stickler with a love of coffee, culture and politics.
Currently reading about passionate citizenship and listening to Gillian Welch.
According to the documentary The Right Child [Det rätta barnet], which was broadcast on Swedish television recently, a prenatal screening programme in Denmark has started a trend which, if it continues, will lead to no more babies being born with Down’s syndrome. Not because they [...]
Posted in feminism, personal, politics, right and wrong | No Comments »Three children die, because they don’t get the medicine they need. Three children die, but not because there is no medicine and their illness can’t be cured. Three children die in vain, because their father, a religious pastor, chooses not to bring his children to [...]
Posted in politics | No Comments »People are talking about a Capitalism 4.0. Capitalism must change for the better, they say, and become more responsible. The financial crisis that started in 2008 has demonstrated that very clearly.
I don’t know much about macroeconomics, but I find this whole discussion almost as disappointing [...]
Posted in equality, politics, random observations | No Comments »Is it still worth going to university?, the Guardian asked its readers a few weeks ago. It’s a question worth asking, but one which needs some background information. Why ask it, and why now?
Student fees have trebled. Unemployment is on the up, and universities are [...]
A quick thought on Kenneth Clarke’s take on last month’s riots:
What did he say? Our problem, and one of the key reasons behind the riots, is a “broken penal system”.
How did he come to this conclusion? A majority of the offenders during the riots belong [...]
Posted in politics, right and wrong | No Comments »Just a quick insight into the mind of David Cameron’s director of strategy, David Hilton, from a piece in the Guardian yesterday:
“Now look at the man Cameron has actually paid to advise him. Hilton wants to scrap maternity benefits, get rid of jobcentres, abolish consumer [...]
Posted in equality, politics | No Comments »“Keeping people safe is the first duty of government,” said David Cameron in the House of Commons after recalling parliament. Not a particularly surprising statement coming from a true conservative. But put into context, where what the prime minister is really saying is that the [...]
Posted in equality, politics, right and wrong | No Comments »That a free-market thinktank wants to kill the NHS in favour of tax cuts, that’s newsworthy enough to write about? Really?
That we could save money by opting for something similar to the American health care system (or lack thereof), where health is a luxury product, [...]
Posted in equality, politics, right and wrong | No Comments »When equalities minister Lynne Featherstone highlights the policy of ”the right to request flexible working” as one of many signs that the current coalition is doing a lot for women, as yet another budget with public sector cuts gets accused of hitting women the hardest and stalling gender [...]
Posted in equality, feminism, politics | 1 Comment »I was one of those people who found the killing of Osama bin Laden slightly nauseating. No matter how certain Obama felt that it was the right thing to do, the lack of a legal process just made the whole thing seem like a slap [...]
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London-based writer and grammar stickler with a love of coffee, culture and politics.
Currently reading about passionate citizenship and listening to Gillian Welch.