Do what I can to eschew sexism and to bring my daughter up as a civilised and thoughtful person, all roads seem inexorably to lead to this.
Do what I can to eschew sexism and to bring my daughter up as a civilised and thoughtful person, all roads seem inexorably to lead to this.
Is hosted by Mr Eugenides who through no fault of his own links to some depressing material. He leads us to Philobiblon reporting on A Female Future discussion. Baroness Kate Parminter (LibDem) noted that in looking at secondary schools for her daughter, she found that one she had otherwise liked offered cheerleading […]
Is hosted by Matt Wardman. Check it out. Especially Retro Home Tips: … the world needs more than just lawyers, doctors, and scientists, and ad executives. In fact we could probably live with out the ad executives. But we will fall flat on our faces as a society, and some […]
Over at Business and Politics I ask some questions designed to help people sort out their own thoughts and identify which sort of business behaviour is ‘greedy’: Question FourA family firm builds up over generations now employs 400 people. One worker is a convinced Communist. He starts to agitate for a […]
A young woman is unemployed. She has numerous tattoos and face-piercings, which some employers might find unattractive and not the sort of image they wish to present. Question. Should taxpayers who are paying for her unemployment benefits be entitled to expect her to ‘smarten up’ her appearance in a more […]
Anne Perkins at the Guardian muses on the fact that new Labour Party leader Ed Miliband’s private life is no longer so private: Hardly had the world learned the non-secret information that Ed Miliband’s partner, the barrister Justine Thornton, was not also his wife, than a trawl through the birth […]
OK, pretty much all of us agree that it is reasonable for the state to use force against citizens for clear agreed purposes. But does that mean that it is OK for the state to say that all the state’s purposes, whatever they might be, are sufficiently important for force to […]
I have not been past Arts & Letters Daily recently, but it continues to carry a fine range of links. See this one at the NY Times about Truthiness and Proofiness – different forms of approaching or presenting arguments in a specious or dishonest way. Truthiness: “the quality of preferring concepts […]
I am rummaging around on the Internet for material on why international organisations are so ineffective. I suspect it’s all to do with the Square/Cube law, identified by Galileo. See here: Doubling the length of the sides of the square creates an area four times the size. The effect is greater […]
Is deftly hosted by Natalie Bennett. Various points of interest, including a list of feminist bloggers missing from the ‘blokeosphere’ lists of leading bloggers exemplified by the Total Politics surveys. Hey, women bloggers, there’s nothing stopping your blogs being put forward into these surveys and asking readers to vote for […]
