Archive for March 2010
The case for voting Labour……
Posted by: melissabenn on: March 29, 2010
…not that you’d know it from the slightly odd headline on the piece in the latest issue of Red Pepper, in which I debate the choice facing us in the upcoming election, with Mike Mansfield QC, he of the extraordinary court room confidence and flowing locks. In short, MM thinks the current system and New [...]
The Mother Load
Posted by: melissabenn on: March 28, 2010
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I really liked this piece in today’s Observer. Too many mothers deal with their own insecurities/competitiveness by focussing on the all too human failings of others. But mothers also need each other, particularly in the early years when it is all so bewildering and overwhelming. Motherhood unites, but it also divides, women or the competitive/ [...]
Mary Warnock’s cost-cutting defeatism
Posted by: melissabenn on: March 26, 2010
Read Melissa’s latest post on Comment is Free, the Guardian website, about Mary Warnock’s proposals for secondary schools in an age of austerity.
The Wives Have It.
Posted by: melissabenn on: March 24, 2010
Read Melissa’s latest post on political women versus political wives on Guardian’s Comment is Free website.
Her animal life
Posted by: melissabenn on: March 23, 2010
Read Melissa’s latest review, of Maggie Gee’s new memoir My Animal Life in this week’s New Statesman, the review itself rather strangely entitled ‘Greatcoat of Terror.’
In treatment
Posted by: melissabenn on: March 17, 2010
Nowadays, I mostly watch TV for current affairs: News at Ten, Newsnight, Question Time and the occasional political documentary. If I miss something, I can spend ages trying to load up my – slow broadband – computer to watch it again, not always successfully: for instance, quite a few people have told me how great [...]
The Tories use the ‘c-word’
Posted by: melissabenn on: March 9, 2010
Read Melissa Benn’s latest posting on Guardian Comment is Free on the way Tory education spokesman Michael Gove bandies about the word comprehensive whenever he can, despite the content of opposition education policies.
Shame on us
Posted by: melissabenn on: March 5, 2010
Read Melissa Benn’s latest review in the Independent today of two major feminist books; Natasha Walter’s Living Dolls and Kat Banyard’s The Equality Illusion.
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