Fittingly, in the run-up week to International Women's Day, it was the ‘gender' week on the first year...
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Politics and culture 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...
Meanwhile in the town hall…
Those three words have gone from being somewhere in the depths of my subconscious to centre-stage for me lately in...
No 30-year rule here – political leaders in the age of hyper-reality
I can't remember exactly who said it but it's bound to be some American clever clogs or other who quipped that the...
Report from Number 10 Eid reception
It may not quite have been on the scale of the mystery glamorous couple who inveigled their way into Obama's White...
Still nasty?
Watching the Conservative party conference on television during the week I’ve been struck by the sea of...
Michael Jackson and the juvenilisation of politics
Am still shocked about Michael Jackson's passing. Went to bed after seeing Kirsty Wark interrupted in the middle of a...
Euro-blues
I found myself in a BBC television studio last week where I was asked to complete the sentence ‘the big issue of...
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...