Fittingly, in the run-up week to International Women's Day, it was the ‘gender' week on the first year...
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Rupa Huq Articles
Lord Young was right – up to a point
Labour's latest leader did, however, interrupt his time with baby Sam to comment here and there. Most memorably he...
Every day is like Sunday?
Crowning a week when he defined the odds to become leader, Ed Miliband proclaimed himself to be part of the new...
Euro-blues
I found myself in a BBC television studio last week where I was asked to complete the sentence ‘the big issue of...
Housing crisis
As the expenses saga wore on, our morbid fascination with the lurid detail of it all continued. Anger grew and the...
Blogging all over the world
The revolution, it seems, will not just be televised but also blogged, twittered and Facebooked. At least that was the...
Fairy tales 2009 style
When I last happened to be in the family way I was a resident of Manchester M14, an area with a high incidence of teen...
Thatcherite racist banter is no laughing matter
Mrs Thatcher came up with some interesting lines in her time, surely worthy of any 99p ‘Dictionary of...
The Bangladeshi elections offer reasons to be cheerful
In a week set to be dominated by the Obama inauguration, spare a thought for a long-awaited election in a different...
Pop will eat itself?
“Sex’n’drugs’n’roll,” sang cheeky chappie Ian Dury three decades ago. It’s...
The Ross/Brand furore points to a wider set of issues around youth culture
At a moment where celeb stories have preoccupied the tabloids – including Kerry Katona slurring her words on...
Rusholme Ruffians – take to your trams!
When I was doing my growing up in suburban west London, Manchester neighbourhoods like Whalley Range and Rusholme -...