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Review: Britain’s ISIS Supporters

[ISIS: The British Women Supporters Unveiled](http://www.channel4.com/programmes/isis-the-british-women-supporters-unveiled) from Channel 4 (available for 26 days as of this writing) On Monday night Channel 4 broadcast what purported to be an investigation into a group of British...

Who’s a waste of space, then?

A letter to … My godson, with whom I’ve decided to sever ties | Life and style | The Guardian When I used to read the print edition of the Guardian, the paper I've...

Girls, careers and posh schools

Girls must choose career or motherhood, says top head – Telegraph The Telegraph has interviewed the 'headmistress' of a London private girls' school, Francis Holland in Regent's Park, who says that she's "not a...

You were warned

I rarely watch Question Time, the late-night show on BBC1 in which an audience gets to ask questions of a panel of politicians and journalists, because it's on too late (I usually start work...

On Jeremy Corbyn and those nukes

Last week Jeremy Corbyn, the new Labour leader, said in an interview that if he were Prime Minister, he would not use nuclear weapons under any circumstances, which provoked a storm of controversy with...

Name the problem: White Bigotry

There are some themes which will be familiar to anyone who follows or is involved in feminist discourses about rape and other violence against women and children: that the perpetrators often go unnamed while...

No, we can’t hold all air shows by the sea

I heard the most extraordinary and ridiculous interview on Radio 4's Today programme this morning. John Humphrys was interviewing John Turner from the British Air Display Association about the accident outside Shoreham, West Sussex...

Fear-free healthcare, revisited

Back in 2012, I published on this site a manifesto of sorts, calling for healthcare in the UK to be free of fear. Back then I was heavily involved in ME activism and three...

Review of Wanted: A Very Personal Assistant

Wanted: A Very Personal Assistant is another part of BBC Three's ongoing season of programmes about disability, Defying the Label. In this two-part series, four young people with mobility impairments of differing severity were...