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BATTLE OF IDEAS 2010
Posted by Laura on September 2, 2010
Tags: academia, Education, events, feminism, london, Politics
Earlier today I stumbled across the Battle of Ideas coming up next month (October 30-31). Organised by the Institute of Ideas and hosted by the Royal College of Art, the Battle of Ideas is a two-day (conveniently at the…
SOME TID-BITS
Posted by Laura on July 5, 2010
Tags: academia, Activism, Books, feminism, News, Politics
Women Will Bear Brunt of Budget Cuts piece at The Guardian
CWS at University of York Announces A Carnival of Feminist Cultural Activism
Carol Ann Duffy Reading, Questions and Book Signing in Lincoln
MAGGIE THATCHER, LIKE MARMITE APPARENTLY…
Posted by Laura on July 4, 2010
Tags: Politics, Woman's Hour, Women
BBC Radio4’s Woman’s Hour recently run a balloon debate to consider the woman who’d done the most to give women in Britain a voice in politics. One of the four women in the balloon was Margaret Thatcher,…
ELECTION HUSTINGS IN LONDON AND SHEFFIELD
Posted by Charlotte on March 22, 2010
Tags: funding, london, Politics, Pre election hustings, sheffield, Women, Women's Issues
The elections are just on the horizon and it pays to be informed before you hit the polls. There are likely to be a lot of hustings in your are but let me draw your attention to two – in…
BUREAURCRACY HERE TO STAY
Posted by Charlotte on February 24, 2010
Tags: Conservatives, Politics, Post Bureaucratic Age, Subtext Magazine
The Conservative’s A Post Bureaucratic Age conference held in Shoreditch on Monday was an outing for the tories progressive face: an open data, crowd sourcing, power to the people fist in the air for politics—however it may have oversold…
TAKE ACTION AGAINST NO RECOURSE TO PUBLIC FUNDS – I AM
Posted by Charlotte on October 19, 2009
Tags: Action, feminism, Immigration, Politics
Amnesty International UK is organising a mass lobby of parliament on 4 November 2009 to lobby MPs at Westminster on the No Recourse to Public Funds Rule.
Many women come to the UK, often legally, in the hope of improving
…
TACKLING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN THE WELSH ASSEMBLY GOVERNMENT
Posted by Charlotte on September 25, 2009
Tags: Action Alert, Activism, Domestic Violence, Politics, Violence Against Women
H/T Million Women Rise – from Hannah Austin
“We are campaigning for the Welsh Assembly Government to improve their policies to tackle violence against women in Wales. 2 women a week are still dying of domestic abuse alone in…
AND THE WINNER IS…
Posted by Laura on August 27, 2009
Tags: Children, Education, Employment, Equality, News, Pay Gap, Politics, Youth
As reported here boys this year overtook girls in maths GCSE. Why? Because of the eradication of the coursework and it being purely assessed now by exams; which, we are told, boys do better at. We are told “Coursework…
HARRIET HARM DONE
Posted by Charlotte on August 7, 2009
Tags: News, Politics
Ain’t linguistics a bitch?
Had the Daily Mail not carved up one statement from Harriet Harman this week I feel that many peoples shackles would not be up. They’d be on team, we’d all be on team calling out the…
CERVICAL CANCER SCREENING
Posted by Laura on June 25, 2009
Tags: Health, News, Politics
The government yesterday announced its decision not to lower the screening age for cervical cancer to 20 in England (which it is elsewhere) as it would do “more harm than good”. Yes, you did read that right. More harm to…