Good piece by Alice Thomson in The Times yesterday on how those who work in the NHS deserve gratitude as much as English lessons. Continue reading…
Writings
Something to believe in…
….or is it? Am I being too optimistic in my latest post– more of a note – in Public Finance? You tell me. But the Labour manifesto, as drafted by Ed Miliband, and much discussed, even derided, in recent weeks, seems to contain some very good things. Now if only there had been more about… Continue reading…
The case for voting Labour……
…not that you’d know it from the slightly odd headline on the piece in the latest issue of Red Pepper, in which I debate the choice facing us in the upcoming election, with Mike Mansfield QC, he of the extraordinary court room confidence and flowing locks. In short, MM thinks the current system and New… Continue reading…
The Mother Load
I really liked this piece in today’s Observer. Too many mothers deal with their own insecurities/competitiveness by focussing on the all too human failings of others. But mothers also need each other, particularly in the early years when it is all so bewildering and overwhelming. Motherhood unites, but it also divides, women or the competitive/… Continue reading…
Mary Warnock’s cost-cutting defeatism
Read Melissa’s latest post on Comment is Free, the Guardian website, about Mary Warnock’s proposals for secondary schools in an age of austerity. Continue reading…
The Wives Have It.
Read Melissa’s latest post on political women versus political wives on Guardian’s Comment is Free website. Continue reading…
Her animal life
Read Melissa’s latest review, of Maggie Gee’s new memoir My Animal Life in this week’s New Statesman, the review itself rather strangely entitled ‘Greatcoat of Terror.’ Continue reading…
In treatment
Nowadays, I mostly watch TV for current affairs: News at Ten, Newsnight, Question Time and the occasional political documentary. If I miss something, I can spend ages trying to load up my – slow broadband – computer to watch it again, not always successfully: for instance, quite a few people have told me how great… Continue reading…
The Tories use the ‘c-word’
Read Melissa Benn’s latest posting on Guardian Comment is Free on the way Tory education spokesman Michael Gove bandies about the word comprehensive whenever he can, despite the content of opposition education policies. Continue reading…
Shame on us
Read Melissa Benn’s latest review in the Independent today of two major feminist books; Natasha Walter’s Living Dolls and Kat Banyard’s The Equality Illusion. Continue reading…
