Another post about Harriet Harman? I’m afraid so

Lindsey and I went to the Museum of Science and Industry yesterday, largely because that’s where they’re keeping some of the People’s History Museum’s displays until it reopens this autumn. (I’m very excited about this. I love the People’s History Museum. If you think you’re bored of hearing about it now, just imagine what I’ll [...]

Doctor accused of sexual abuse during abortions

The Manchester Evening News reports today on these shocking allegations at the Marie Stopes clinic in Fallowfield.
Women undergoing termination are surely among the most vulnerable groups in the healthcare system and have to put up with enough scaremongering about the risks from anti-choice groups without having to contend with the fear of being exploited in this [...]

Coming soon…

…are you thinking that I promised you a blog on Manchester Labour Women’s Forum several days ago and haven’t delivered? No? Well…if you were, you’d be wrong. I took so many notes at the event that I have material for at least three posts, and the first one is up at LabourWomen. Another one will [...]

Discrimination is fine as long as it benefits…men.

I blogged about ten days ago to criticise Raf Sanchez for his suggestion that forcing people to retire at 65 is laudable if it means more jobs for us twentysomethings. Imagine, I said, if someone said the same about forcing women out of their jobs to make more room for men.
Turns out someone had. I [...]

Sweet Mandarin

Last year, until I was forced to find somewhere more cat-friendly, I lived in Manchester’s Northern Quarter. I miss the area very much and would move back in a second if only Audrey wasn’t so attached to things like grass and trees.
Although my current location obviously offers a lot in the way of eating in/eating [...]

The left should be above using Harriet as a scapegoat

 Wrote the following as a response to an anti-Harriet rant on LabourList…at about 3am, so good luck with this one
Let me start with a confession: I am an unapologetic Harriet Harman fan. I get a kick out of having a woman in her position who is proud to call herself a feminist , [...]

Fletcher-Hackwood in ‘actually blogging about something topical’ shock

…ish. Just thought that, as you uncross your fingers long enough to pick up your mugs of ever-cooling coffee, and dream that one day people might be queuing up to vote in Britain too, you might be interested in this article on how American women have been voting.

Things from the Manchester Oxfam minutes

Kept meaning to put this up – this is from the event at the Town Hall on the 16th October, where all the knitters who contributed to the blanket met up for a launch event to celebrate their hard work. There was also a film documenting the process of creating the blanket which (lest ye [...]

Rather late in the day…

…nevertheless it is still just about Blog Action Day, which I found out about via Oxfam, and they would like people to blog about poverty.
I had a think about which aspect of poverty to talk about, and decided that, although child poverty in the UK is probably on my mind more often, the issue of climate poverty [...]

Awesome news

The government have agreed to shelve 42 days – thank Christ (or, more accurately, Liberty) for that. There is hope for the country yet.
Also, big shout out to any Manchester homies (or anyone else I might know) involved in the climate change action at Westminster today – I know from a Facebook message I got [...]