Germaine Greer on Shilpa Shetty
Catch it before it disappears off-line (as things tend to do when the subject is contentious). Germaine Greer on Shilpa Shetty in the Guardian. Classic stuff, including gems like this:…
Stir-up Sunday
It’s stir-up Sunday, and so for the first time ever, I did what you’re supposed to do and made my Christmas cake. Ironic, really, considering that I have no intention…
When the deep purple falls
‘Dappled light’ and the thing it refers to is one of my favourite words, and so I’m never happier than this time of year when you see light like the…
Exclusive claptrap
Let us rebel against poisonous academics and their preposterous claptrap of exclusion is an article by Robert Fisk about the way academics litter their disciplines with language that serves to…
Chewing the fat about obesity
On the day that the main headline at 9.00am on the BBC news site is England to have 13m obese by 2010, I’m trying to work out why this seems…