"Tis now common to suspect Impossibilities whenever two Ladies live too much together - that horrible Vice ... call'd Sapphism."
Read More »Natalie Bennett
Private Enterprise in Public Education
Isn't it a good thing that kids will always rebel against things being shoved down their throats?
Read More »Friday Femme Fatales No 25
Where are all the female bloggers? Here, in my weekly "top ten" posts.
Read More »Mr Blair: What Do You Say to This Victim?
Britain's Prime Minister wants a "complete change of thinking from innocent until proven guilty".
Read More »Man, 55, rapes girl, 14: There is no defense
The UN human rights framework is a good place to start in making value judgments about cultural practices.
Read More »Recovering women’s lives
One of the things I try to do in blogging is celebrate the lives of forgotten or under-appreciated women.
Read More »Book Review: The Tailor-King by Anthony Arthur
Is human nature today the same as it was 50, or 500, or 5,000 or 50,000 years ago?
Read More »Sir Ian Blair: A Dangerous Man?
A police chief, it appears, has a tenuous grasp of "innocent until proven guilty", and the rule of law.
Read More »In Search of Fatima, by Ghada Karmi: Review
Imagine you are a seven-year-old who's known years of escalating conflict, suddenly transported to an entirely foreign land.
Read More »Reports of Nushu’s Demise Were Exaggerated
This script, used only by women in a remote area of China, was declared "lost" last year.
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