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Category Archives: news
Children, prime ministers, and PR
How many men say they are better qualified to be a price, oops, prime, minister because they have children? Dear me. On a side note, Eagle, Leadsom, May, are little Thatchers. The Thatcher revivalist movement. And what is with the … Continue reading
Attaboy
Or rather, Attaboys. Worthy of a Sun headline perhaps? On the lines of Gotcha. (A reference to the sinking of the ARA Belgrano by the RN in 1982.) Readers will know I’m among the first to denounce endless unnecessary military … Continue reading
Posted in europe, life, news, politics, travel, War
Tagged Amsterdam, armed guards, dystopian future, future, India, Paris, Sci-fi, Thalys, train incident
48 Comments
Is Clarkson paying the price?
Or, is this about trying to absolve the past? I have always found Jeremy Clarkson to be the personification of an obnoxious loathsome git. He is the classic rude, boorish, sexist, Yorkshireman. Because yes, dear reader, said arrogant egotistical 54-year-old … Continue reading
Posted in feminism, journalism, media, news
Tagged BBC, Clarkson, Harris, Savile, Sexism, Yorkshire Ripper
49 Comments
Post Charlie (and feminism?)
What journalist could have heard the news about Charlie Hebdo last week and not felt the following emotions? Shock, empathy, and a reminder that we choose a profession that doesn’t make us popular. These journalists weren’t in a war zone, … Continue reading
Posted in feminism, journalism, Longreads, news, politics, Religion, War
Tagged Charlie hebdo
19 Comments
Sheer garbage
There is some utter tosh being written about the death of one woman. I can not believe it. I have bored readers on roughseas enough, so I will make Thatcher, Part 3 a Clouds post. And, what is interesting, is … Continue reading
From death to trivia
Originally posted on Work of the Negative: A Marxist-Humanist blog:
From the new March-April 2013 issue of News & Letters: Editorial State of the U.S. wars The opening of Barack Obama’s second term made it clear that, despite all talk…
You are what you eat (2)
And now it’s donkey burgers. Seriously people. Wake up. I can’t be bothered to say any more. You want to condone vicious animal cruelty and slaughter for a few bucks and a cheaper meal, go ahead. You want to eat … Continue reading
Posted in animal rights, animals, consumerism, environmentalism, food, life, news, vegan, vegetarian
Tagged donkey burgers
33 Comments
You are what you eat
A short and pithy post. Honestly! Would you believe that from me? Horse meat in lasagna. I confess, I couldn’t resist writing about it. I see four issues here: 1) Hypocrisy. OK to eat cows, pigs, sheep, but not horses … Continue reading
Posted in animal rights, animals, food, health, life, news, thoughts, UK, vegan
Tagged horse meat
33 Comments
Irresponsible journalism at its worst
There is no such thing as a prank call. Purporting to be someone you aren’t is disingenuous at best, and more frequently, lying. Disregarding the issue of how a couple of Aussie music programme presenters can possibly emulate the Queen … Continue reading
Posted in blogging, journalism, life, media, news, writing
Tagged duchess of cambridge, leveson
17 Comments
More rape – of men, and coal
Court-martialled in World War II. For throwing an officer over the side (of a ship). The father-in-law who I never knew, because he had died before I had even met my husband. William was on the way to Dunkirk, and … Continue reading
Jimmy Savile – how’s about that, then?
What is there to say? Shocking? Terrible? Those poor girls and women? And boys apparently too. I don’t need to say all that because everyone else has said it. A couple of things I will say. They are currently allegations … Continue reading
Posted in childhood, feminism, journalism, life, media, money, musings, news
Tagged celebrity, jimmy savile
32 Comments
Gold!
How can I not resist this? In fact instead of that boring long distance running film, I don’t know why they aren’t playing this one for the Olympic winners. Cracking voice from Tony Hadley, and one of the few bands … Continue reading
Posted in cycling, news, thoughts
Tagged gold, olympics, opinions, rants. sport, spandau ballet
26 Comments
From the Peróns to the Kirchners …..
…… in one easy leap (via the Clintons) Argentina, I think, might as well just institute a monarchy. If the Peróns were treated with the sycophancy normally reserved for royal couples, the Kirchners have benefited from the same adulation. Not … Continue reading
Strange timing – the Falklands dispute continues
Today marks the end of fighting in the Falkland Islands 30 years ago when the Argentinians surrendered to the British. For pedants out there, the British declared an end to military activities on the 20 June. So the fact that … Continue reading
Well, roll me over.
Couldn’t pass this one by. The land of the free and that great dream. Also known as the land of sexist misogynist bastards who want to control women. Oh, I’m busy doing other things right now rather than blogging, [inserts … Continue reading
How to make anyone want to vomit
Er hello. This is not racism or about sex. This is purely about abusive power of a patriarchal society. This is about men exploiting and abusing women. And it is time it stopped. These men are disgusting and depraved. Their … Continue reading
Dog eat dog
Journalism was a tough world out there. Apparently so much so that we ate each other. Dog eat dog was regularly applied to my trade/craft/profession. But that’s metaphorical. This isn’t. This is literal – I’ve deleted the photos as I … Continue reading
Posted in abandoned dogs, animal rights, animals, death, dogs, life, musings, nature, news, rescue dogs, writing
Tagged animals, stop animal abuse
21 Comments
Compromises?
What do you do when faced with a dilemma involving your principles? Choose one principle above another? Or try and find that compromise in the middle, that isn’t one or the other? Life is made up of compromises of so … Continue reading
Posted in animal rights, animals, consumerism, death, environment, environmentalism, europe, feminism, gibraltar, health, life, media, musings, nature, news, public relations, shopping, social media, spain, vegan, vegetarian, vegetarianism, writing
Tagged animal testing, campaign, environment, ethical shopping, HSI, lush
28 Comments
Consumerism (7) – it doesn’t matter to me
The much-heralded post and the final one in the series. Perhaps the most important one too. Oh. Why? Because it is the one where you can make a difference. I was going to insert a terribly clever digression here to … Continue reading
Posted in animal rights, animals, blogging, consumerism, dogs, drugs, environment, environmentalism, europe, feminism, food, life, music, news, politics, poverty, shopping, travel, vegan, vegetarian, vegetarianism, War
Tagged environment, ethical consumer, it doesn't matter to me, redgum, voting with your feet
21 Comments
Happy World Sleep Day
Honestly I despair. I have read on a couple of blogs that it is World Cancer Day so I looked it up. Apparently 4 February is World Cancer Day as designated by the World Health Organisation (WHO). So what’s with … Continue reading
Posted in animal rights, blogging, cancer, death, food, health, internet, life, musings, news, social media, vegetarian
Tagged health information, livestrong, world cancer day, world sleep day
4 Comments