Sophie Lewis19 Feb 2016
The Labour Party last year assented to the Conservatives’ longstanding desire to cap child benefits at the white middle-class standard of two children. In desperation, a petition is currently calling on the government to at least abandon plans to force women to prove...
Susan O'Shea11 Mar 2014
Reblog: this post was first published by Susan O’Shea at the Feminist Times. See the original here. Pussy Riot sang in their Punk Prayer, two years ago today: “become a feminist, become a feminist” – a rallying call to action. From Sochi to Kiev, Caracas to our...
Joseph Maslen17 Jan 2014
This post is about Dominic Sandbrook, the historian who last year presented the BBC series The 70s1 and writes a column for the Daily Mail2. Specifically, it is about his 2010 book State of Emergency: The Way We Were: Britain, 1970-1974, part of his quadrilogy on...
Susan O'Shea17 Oct 2013
Time: 2-5pm, 25th October Place: 3.204 University Place, Oxford Road, Manchester M19 2JJ All welcome. Please register via Eventbrite. Curators of new book Let’s Start a Pussy Riot will be discussing the group and the wider implications of their actions in an...
