Friday, 30 December 2016

For politics.co.uk: What the hell just happened?

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I contributed to this group round-up of what happened in 2016 . It's in alphabetical order so scroll down to find me ! I argue that ...
Wednesday, 21 December 2016

Reeling through 2015, changing through 2016, planning for 2017

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“2016,” I’ve said cautiously the last few weeks, “wasn’t so bad, on a personal level.” Those of you who know me in *real life* will know t...
Friday, 16 December 2016

For Open Democracy: Ali Smith's Autumn

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I adore Ali Smith so of course I was going to love her latest novel, Autumn .  But it really is an extraordinary piece of work.  She...
Sunday, 11 December 2016

How society and the state gas lights victims of domestic abuse

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I’ve written before about how culturally we have a vested interest in ensuring women don’t report incidents of male violence. With 1.2 mil...
Saturday, 10 December 2016

Stop trying to make 'fascie' happen...

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...or, how we must resist the normalisation of the far right.  On Thursday, a friend of mine put on Facebook that she and a friend were i...
Tuesday, 6 December 2016

Post-Brexit bedfellows, and a story from Bahrain

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A couple of years  ago, I worked on the Amnesty campaign to free Mahdi Abu Dheeb , a trade union activist arrested in Bahrain in 2011 follo...
Thursday, 1 December 2016

For the Heroine Collective: Jean Rhys

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Writing this series for The Heroine Collective has been such a joy, I can't believe this is my penultimate piece on the amazing and ins...