Minister of state for the armed forces Nick Harvey revealed yesterday that the UK is spending a total of £342,000 on training the Iraqi security forces.The money is part of a £6.8m fund to support projects in Iraq in the current financial year. This fund – the “middle east north Africa conflict pool” – is “designed to support the development of the effective and accountable public institutions to protect citizens and deliver services in Iraq.” It’s managed by the MOD, the FCO and the D...
BITCH:NEWS
02 Jul 2010 13:00 GMT
It’s the debate that looks like it’s never going to die. When Sarah Palin first stepped into the spotlight many were thrilled that a woman was in the running for Vice President. The excitement lasted for, oh, a couple of days until everyone remembered which party she’s a member of and that all the ‘Yay, a woman doing well in politics!’ cries in the world weren’t going to drown out the anti-woman policies of the Republican Party.
BITCH:NEWS
30 Jun 2010 09:12 GMT
I was on vacation in Corsica last week while the media uproar and indignation heated up over France’s disappointing, culturally offensive and lackluster football team. In a dingy bar in a small village called Cargèse on the island, my husband and I watched with jaws-dropped as France’s overpaid and over-mediatized superstars were taught what it meant to play as a real team by their Mexican opponents. Ironically, we were watching in embarrassment next to a very elated group of Mexicans, quite ...
BITCH:NEWS
24 Jun 2010 09:03 GMT
When fashion blogger Blair Hartley flicked through a copy of more! magazine that she’d found lying around at work last Friday, she was disappointed with what she saw. Frustrated to see a number of features centred around the theme of ‘Inside Men’s Minds’ and using what she saw as insulting stereotypes of both men and women, she vented her thoughts on Twitter later that day.
BITCH:TECH
22 Jun 2010 07:53 GMT
Katy Perry is someone I’m not sure I understand. Engaged to Russell Brand, one of the most scandalous men in British pop culture, Katy Perry’s first big hit was about kissing girls. And liking it. She has had other hits about dubachery in Vegas, and about guys being “so gay” without actually liking boys. She’s a conundrum, that one.
BITCH:NEWS
21 Jun 2010 17:00 GMT
Crikey, school uniform is tricky ground isn’t it?! I don’t envy the people in charge who have to make decisions about what goes and what doesn’t, which items to pick, and what creative interpretations to let slide. However, despite a certain sense of empathy, I have to say that a lot of the time schools manage to get their policies on uniform completely and utterly wrong.
BITCH:NEWS
18 Jun 2010 09:24 GMT
2010 is a great year for books on contemporary feminism. Just when you’d had enough of everyone despairing (or rejoicing) that feminism is now at thing of the past or that women don’t care about equality any more, several books are published within the space of a few months, proving that actually, feminism is still extremely important to a lot of women.
BITCH:NEWS
16 Jun 2010 14:00 GMT
After spending two weeks in a southern American State, I realized just how drastic, horrifying, and complicated the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico actually is. Being so far north and away from the drama, the UK and other countries are talking ...
BITCH:NEWS
15 Jun 2010 14:00 GMT
Everyone says that change is positive and I tend to agree. However, you might remember my recent post expressing my disappointment rather emphatically about the transformations Paris will likely undergo in the coming months/years.
BITCH:NEWS
10 Jun 2010 13:45 GMT
As the World Cup approaches, so do the mindless facts and figures and, perhaps unsurprisingly, the gender stereotypes. Every single media outlet seems to assume that all men love football while all women have an inbuilt inability to understand the offside rule. Even places like
BITCH:NEWS
08 Jun 2010 09:00 GMT