Half The World Is Watching

They say you find things happening more often once you’re aware of them. Great recent examples: I’ve noticed Emirates a lot more since I’ve been to Dubai; I’ve seen a couple of travel features on former-Yugoslavia since reading Veronika Decides To Die; and since purchasing Wo...

When I was younger I was hyperlexic – I had a reading age far older than my own. I avidly read everything I could get my hands on and I was always found buried in books, reading about whatever interested me in that moment. (Stand-out interests I can remember include learning facts about dinosaurs, a...

I didn’t vote in the local elections, and this apparently means I am a prime target for spontaneous abuse on Twitter. “You didn’t vote, you can’t moan”, “You’re part of the problem”, and so on. As it happened, my not-voting was not actually a political...

Not outside but in. I saw some girls on the tube yesterday on their way home from a JLS concert – I imagined them to be around 14/15 years old (with, presumably, one of their mothers) and they had JLS glittered on their cheeks. I realised how different my life used to be. At 14-15, [...]

Too often it feels like I am engaged in some kind of gender battle whereby I’m fighting for the wimminz and having normal relations with men feels like sleeping with the enemy. Literally. It feels like I’m constantly fighting to try and stay true to my what I genuinely believe (you know,...

The Mail Online is one of those really annoying news outlets that you can hate more than anything else, and still have a bit of admiration for. I admire the MO, because it knows what its readers want, and it delivers time and time again, without fail. It is a tremendously  ridiculous, runaway succes...

- Support military interventionism because guns are REALLY COOL, YAH. - Demand cookies and fempoints from feminists when you meet the minimum standards of acceptable behaviour towards women. Go you, dude! You totally deserve a cookie for not groping me. I’m eternally grateful. - TALK OVER EVER...

At Fem11 last year, Sandi Toksvig said something that has stayed with me and rattled around my brain for a while. She said, isn’t it funny how, before the invention of the written word, women were treated equally, or at least not with the contempt they are treated with even now. Isn’t it...

Some of you may remember, or know (as I keep going on about it) that I went to Dubai last year. I meant to write about it at the time, and then I felt a bit sheepish about it; I worried what people would think of me – for I knew that my overall impression [...]

Dear Christopher Grayling, I’ve just read this Telegraph article (can’t find strength to find the actual piece you wrote). Let me start by saying I disagree with the concept of unpaid work experience full stop. I would love to say that my work experience thus far has been paid, but it ha...