Posted by: allabouteve on: July 29, 2007
In this allegedly post-feminist world , it’s always useful to be reminded of the facts of inequality, instead of tabloid mythologies about Alpha Woman and Ladettes. The EOC in producing its last report “Completing the Revolution” has highlighted the dismal fact that it will take 200 years to close the power gap. http://www.eoc.org.uk
Am reading Rebel [...]
Posted by: allabouteve on: July 23, 2007
Just because the media are speculating about a change of leadership in the Scottish Labour party , doesn’t make it it necessarily so – but it would be daft not to recognise why speculation is rife. The trouble with leadership contests is the implication that the future direction and success of a party depends on [...]
Posted by: allabouteve on: July 22, 2007
An earlier post revealed that I’m not a keen festival goer, but last Sunday I ventured along to Victoria Park to see what the Indian Summer was all about – given some complaints from last year’s event it seemed only sensible to check it out myself. First impressions – most of the park was [...]
Posted by: allabouteve on: July 11, 2007
The sales of fake tan lotions must be soaring, in inverse proportion to the sales of summer frocks and skirts – as this dreich summer drags on with hardly a day going by without some precipitation (as my geography teacher used to say) Still, given how hideous the summer fashions are (smocks and psychedelic prints [...]
Posted by: allabouteve on: July 5, 2007
That’s just Glasgow, we’ll jist set about ye.. immortal words , and as a Guardian writer pointed out, years of marketing the softer side of Glasgow disappear in five seconds of inspired comment.. John Smeaton, airport baggage handler caught up in terrorist attack , internet hero of our time http://www.johnsmeaton.com/
And yet.. there is something Scotland [...]
Posted by: allabouteve on: July 3, 2007
Being out of the country when events happen is always surreal and makes it
difficult to focus. I was in Birmingham for a conference on 9/11 and sitting in
a hotel room by myself only increased the sense of fear and alienation as I
watched the second plane hit the world trade centre ..So being in Dublin [...]
