As yet another woman is treated disgracefully by the courts, it’s time for the courts reassess their approach to rape cases.
There’s a really spot-on blog post which has been doing the rounds on Tumblr and Twitter recently. Entitled ’The People You Meet When You Write About Rape’, it provides a fairly comprehensive list of the various ‘personalities’...
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10 Nov 2010 09:15 GMT
We've all heard horror stories of women in their 40s being fired from their Hollywood jobs for aging. (And really, how dare they!) Sadly, it comes as no surprise that the same happens to female TV news reporters.
The Evening Standard reports that Countryfile presenter Charlotte Smith, aged 46, is claiming that herself and her female colleagues, Miriam O'Reilly, Juliet Morris and Michaela Strachan, were all
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09 Nov 2010 20:31 GMT
The Wallace and Gromit Great British Tea Party is once again upon us! This December, from the 1st through the 21st, people across Britain will be throwing tea parties to raise money for the Wallace & Gromit’s Children’s Foundation.
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08 Nov 2010 16:00 GMT
Celebrity arguments can be fascinating, if only because they show a brief glimpse beyond the polished PR front that’s usually presented to us. One of the things I don’t like about the X-Factor is how incredibly good it is at feeding us staged drama dressed up as real life, so I especially like it when this particular façade slips a little.
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05 Nov 2010 09:17 GMT
Bladder weakness. It’s a difficult thing to make telly-friendly, isn’t it? So how the hell do you go about making an ad for incontinence pads?
Incontinence is no laughing matter. The World Health Organisation has estimated It affects more than 200 million men, women and children worldwide. Don’t go thinking it’s the preserve of addled old ladies who’ve let go of so many other parts of their life, bladder control is the final basti...
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02 Nov 2010 16:00 GMT
US-style anti-choice tactics have crossed the pond this month as part of a religious initiative to picket abortion clinics.
For the first time, protesters have been targeting a UK clinic – Marie Stopes House in central London, which was one of the country’s first abortion clinics. Reports have suggested that women entering the clinic have been ‘harassed’ and given leaflets containing dubious information – such as the unfound...
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27 Oct 2010 09:00 GMT
People around the world watched and cheered as the Chilean miners were freed, one by one, from their underground prison. I was surprised to find my friends, normally hard-hearted cynics, dabbing away tears as they watched this "miracle," this "triumph of the human spirit." No, let's not get distracted by the fact that the miners had the...
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21 Oct 2010 12:17 GMT
Female candidates on The Apprentice have been criticised for representing women in business badly after last week's episode of the reality show made the headlines for all the wrong reasons.
In an episode which saw contestants attempt to design and market a beach-themed product, the show's female contestants were seen bickering and fighting throughout - something which undoubtedly contributed to the...
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20 Oct 2010 12:15 GMT
Charlie Brooker has spent years making his fellow hate-filled bastards feel better about the world with his perfect (and painful) insults, but he’s just announced he will no longer be writing his popular Guardian column after deciding he’s mellowed a bit and no longer feels the need to verba...
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18 Oct 2010 09:00 GMT
The Eiffel Tower was evacuated, twice. Suspicious packages left countless times in heavily frequented metro stations. Bomb alerts on and off the metro slowed drastically if not ceased traffic entirely several times in the last two weeks. Sure, nothing amounted to these incidents and both bomb alerts were found to be false threats by some 53-year-old fool reportedly under the influence of alcohol (a drunk, let's just call him what he is) but this surge in precaution has had everyone abuz...
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14 Oct 2010 15:00 GMT