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  • How dominant is the “blokeosphere”?

    Rowenna Davis writes about her experience as guest editor on Labour List on Comment is Free. What interests me about this experience is that while I think the so-called “blokeosphere” is out there, it isn’t universal across political blogs and, as a “bloke” bores me to tears as well. A few observations: It is hard…

  • Caveman politics from Fawcett

    Has the Fawcett Society gone quite mad? Yesterday, they published the report Are women bearing the burden of the recession? Now, I’m quite open to the argument that the answer to that question might be yes. Fawcett goes further however, claiming that “this is, literally, a man-made recession.” The report itself qualifies this slightly: It…

  • Representation in politics: what has gender got to do with it?

    One anniversay, two very different ways of covering it. The Today programme opted to mark the 90th anniversary of the first woman elected to the Commons by interviewing the son of a hereditary peer and his granddaughter. Both of them poured cold water over the idea of all women shortlists altough, this being Tony Benn,…

  • Tim Leunig: moonlighting down under?

    Is it a coincidence that a few days after Tim Leunig apparently goes to Australia, a mayor in that country gets in trouble for saying this?

  • Back to the fifties?

    An article in the Guardian got me thinking: is the title “Ms” really unkown to women under 30? A straw poll of under 30 women in my office slightly reassured me as they all use the title, but then it is a very political office. The phenomenon however is wider than just this title. Only…