September 2014

Saturday interview at All That Is Solid with Anna Chen: “Don’t sneer at love in politics”

Saturday interview with Phil Burton Cartledge at All That Is Solid …: Anna Chen Extracts: highlights and lowlifes – Why did you start blogging? I started blogging as Madam Miaow in 2007 to stop me chucking heavy objects through the television screen. I needed not only to vent, but to order my thoughts when faced […]

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Texas rules up-the-skirt photos are legal in freedom of speech tussle that’s not as clear cut as you think.

I’ve been saying for a geological era that women in the west have a burqa imposed on us. It’s just that ours is invisible. The Texas Court of Appeal ruling legalising up-the-skirt shots — where a perv can thrust his camera up your skirt to take the image for sexual gratification — seems on the

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Scotland: I want you to stay but I understand why you’ve had enough

I adore Scotland and its people. Not just the ones I’ve met at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, but during the weeks in Glasgow with the play M Butterfly at the Kings Theatre. The theatre crew looked after us and were so delightful, funny and hospitable, getting us drunk every night and refusing to let us

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Laniakea: galaxy supercluster home to the Milky Way

Putting everything into perspective. Laniakea — Hawaiian for “immeasurable heaven” — is the vast area of the universe that’s home to the Milky Way which is tiny in the greater scheme of things. Human beings are the most amazing creatures; this planet and everything alive or that’s ever been alive is a complete fluke in

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