Author Archives: Grace Fletcher-Hackwood
Today on the internet 28/5/2012
What I’ve been reading today: Like most of the UK, Manchester has for the last week had the kind of weather that makes you want to - in the words of Bridget Jones – ’panic, run out of the office, take
Today on the internet 28/5/2012
What I’ve been reading today: Like most of the UK, Manchester has for the last week had the kind of weather that makes you want to - in the words of Bridget Jones – ’panic, run out of the office, take
Today on the internet: street harassment, a low-budget British film and the happiest of pigs
A short one today, because the weather’s so beautiful I’ve been out basking…ha! As if. I was in the CAB in Salford where it is hotter than the surface of the sun and every time you turn a fan on,
Today on the internet: street harassment, a low-budget British film and the happiest of pigs
A short one today, because the weather’s so beautiful I’ve been out basking…ha! As if. I was in the CAB in Salford where it is hotter than the surface of the sun and every time you turn a fan on,
Today on the internet: jobs, job interviews, Tom Watson and Lego
What I’ve been reading today: Following the government’s reluctant publication of Adrian Beecroft’s report on how much higher employment would be if bosses could simply sack people “if they didn’t fancy them”, as one of my council colleagues put it
Today on the internet: jobs, job interviews, Tom Watson and Lego
What I’ve been reading today: Following the government’s reluctant publication of Adrian Beecroft’s report on how much higher employment would be if bosses could simply sack people “if they didn’t fancy them”, as one of my council colleagues put it
Today on the internet: Stella, Mara and maybe you
What I’ve been reading today: Following on from yesterday’s interesting reading about Wonga, this story about their (apparently past) habit of telling frightening lies to debtors to get them to pay up seemed pretty timely. Meanwhile, Stella Creasy had a
Today on the internet: Stella, Mara and maybe you
What I’ve been reading today: Following on from yesterday’s interesting reading about Wonga, this story about their (apparently past) habit of telling frightening lies to debtors to get them to pay up seemed pretty timely. Meanwhile, Stella Creasy had a
Retro review: The Breakfast Club
When Emerald Street offered the chance to go to a free screening of The Breakfast Club at Hulme’s Zion Arts Centre, I jumped at it, and not just because of the free wine. The Breakfast Club, like Pretty In Pink, Sixteen
Retro review: The Breakfast Club
When Emerald Street offered the chance to go to a free screening of The Breakfast Club at Hulme’s Zion Arts Centre, I jumped at it, and not just because of the free wine. The Breakfast Club, like Pretty In Pink, Sixteen
Why it sucks to be a woman in The Breakfast Club (spoilers alert)
If you don’t count Brian the Brain’s pushy mom, there are two women in The Breakfast Club: Claire the Princess and Allison the Kook. The three main male characters all land in detention for doing Very Bad (and therefore Interesting)
Why it sucks to be a woman in The Breakfast Club (spoilers alert)
If you don’t count Brian the Brain’s pushy mom, there are two women in The Breakfast Club: Claire the Princess and Allison the Kook. The three main male characters all land in detention for doing Very Bad (and therefore Interesting)
Today on the internet: debt, pensions and clothes-swapping
What I’ve been reading today: I was a little surprised to wake up this morning to a small news item on the Today programme about Medway CAB in Kent teaming up with legal loan shark Wonga to run a survey
Today on the internet: debt, pensions and clothes-swapping
What I’ve been reading today: I was a little surprised to wake up this morning to a small news item on the Today programme about Medway CAB in Kent teaming up with legal loan shark Wonga to run a survey
Being Elmo review
Not just any old fly on the wall – Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey is what happens when a behind-the-scenes documentary meets The Muppets, with a quick squirt of Hairspray for good measure. The story of how shy little Kevin
Being Elmo review
Not just any old fly on the wall – Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey is what happens when a behind-the-scenes documentary meets The Muppets, with a quick squirt of Hairspray for good measure. The story of how shy little Kevin
Disability bullies, City fans and Batmobile lessons
What I’ve been reading today: Ah, the Telegraph. It really is the Daily Mail with longer words, isn’t it? But where the Mail Online borders its spittle-flecked articles of incitement to hatred by captioning pictures of women with twenties slang
Disability bullies, City fans and Batmobile lessons
What I’ve been reading today: Ah, the Telegraph. It really is the Daily Mail with longer words, isn’t it? But where the Mail Online borders its spittle-flecked articles of incitement to hatred by captioning pictures of women with twenties slang
Guest post: Cllr Amina Lone
Election special guest post by Cllr Amina Lone from Manchester’s Hulme ward If the ghost of Christmas past has his way, Liberal Democrat nightmares in Manchester could be realised today. A year after their dangerous liaison with those blue-blooded Tories,
Guest post: Cllr Amina Lone
Election special guest post by Cllr Amina Lone from Manchester’s Hulme ward If the ghost of Christmas past has his way, Liberal Democrat nightmares in Manchester could be realised today. A year after their dangerous liaison with those blue-blooded Tories,
