A long self-promoting piece by David Edgar on how generations of ‘renegades’ have left the Left is worth a quick glance, if only to see how some privileged people can end up in a severe state of confusion. Edgar names many renegades. Thus: [C]ommentators Nick Cohen, David Aaronovitch and Andrew […]
Polly Toynbee in the Guardian shrieks today that pink ‘Girlification’ is destroying the ‘hopes of 1968’. She cites National Statistics Office numbers as showing that "women in their 40s earn 20% less per hour than their male counterparts. This is the motherhood penalty – and the more children a woman has, […]
Last week I was attempting to train some EU officials in the art of writing impactful political reports. My theory always was that if one’s work from Post was to be actually read by someone somewhere ploughing dispiritedly through the mass of dull stuff on an official desk or in an official […]
Back in the 1980s many in the FCO still recalled the days when a woman had to resign from the service on marriage – a fact which of course left only a tiny number of senior FCO women at the top of the British diplomatic world 20 years later. That […]
