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Category: Politics

Letter to a Brexiteer

Dear Lizzie It was certainly a shock, reading on Facebook that you’d voted for Brexit. A mutual friend told me … More

Brexit, David Cameron, EU Referendum, Nigel Farage, Remain

Each Man Kills the Thing He Loves

14 June 2016 London Barack Obama has called the Orlando shooting a “hate crime” against the LGBTQ community. For LGBTQ … More

homophobia, Orlando

Women Take Back the Write

19 May 2016 London Is feminism dead in the UK? This month’s Something Rhymed Literary Salon series re-opens a much-needed debate about … More

Arifa Akbar, Caitlin Moran, Everyday Sexism, feminism, Germaine Greer, Great Britain, homophobia, Karen Maitland, Michele Roberts, Sarah leFanu, Something Rhymed, Virginia Woolf

It Is So Ordered

27 June 2015 Moncontour, Poitou-Charentes, France There aren’t many mornings where I wake up crying. This morning was one of them. On … More

Gay marriage, Supreme Court

United They Stood

20 January 2015 London Ava DuVernay’s film Selma recreates a pivotal moment in America’s civil rights movement with intelligence and … More

Ava DuVernay, David Oyelowo, Martin Luther King, Selma

The Long Walk to the Altar

30 March 2014 London As same-sex marriage becomes legal in the United Kingdom, is it time for LGBT people to stop thinking … More

Gay marriage, Gayle Rubin, homophobia, Ian McKellen, Jesse Bering, Mark Simpson, Metrosexual, Sex

Bayard Rustin: My Hero

20 January 2014 London Remembering Bayard Rustin, Dr King’s openly gay right hand man in the fight for racial equality … More

Bayard Rustin, Brother Outsider, Civil Rights, homophobia, Martin Luther King

Leaving the Doll’s House

18 August 2013 London A wonderful new production of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House coincides with my watching Danish TV drama Borgen, … More

A Doll's House, Borgen, feminism, Hattie Morahan, Ibsen

Pro Patria Mori

25 April 2013 London ANZAC Day: a celebration of New Zealand’s national identity, or a reminder of a pointless bloody … More

ANZAC Day, Gallipoli, New Zealand, Patriotism, Remembrance Day, Wilfred Owen, World War One

The Lady’s Not For Turning

9 April 2013 London Some thoughts on the life and legacy of Margaret Thatcher – the scourge of the liberal … More

Glenn Greenwald, Margaret Thatcher, Obituaries, Thatcherism, The Iron Lady

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