How can mere footwear be behind – or at the sole of – such highs and lows of female experience?The symbolism and sexiness of divine heels is beyond doubt. We all know shoes are your friends whatever tricks the treacherous waistband might be up to. However, at the other end of the road is the […]
The Olympics – a golden signpost to change
My adorable nephew shows his colours I was at the office of a Sunday newspaper yesterday, putting in my occasional appearance as a subeditor when something odd happened. We had, as most papers do today, several spreads about the Olympics – about the closing festival high jinks, about glory and courage. So far so uplifting […]
Silent Sunday
Where are all the role models for women in newspapers?
I’m rather pleased to be featured on All Media Scotland. I’ve written about citizen journalism and how ‘real’ journalists should work with them. (We need a new phrase here – the opposite to citizen journalism. Suggestions: professional journalists, trained journalists or sell-out journalists?)Anyhow, apart from a little showy off that’s not the point of this […]
Review: My First JCB, On Site Charlie Crane Set
Looking down on the building site Charlie Crane picks stuff up It kept him busy for ages It’s interesting, how ostensibly destructive children can be so interested by construction? Or not, maybe. However, Boy Three – aged three and a bit – was delighted by the arrival of the My First JCB, On Site Charlie Crane […]
If Louise Mensch can’t have it all, what chance do the rest of us have?
Louise Mensch Tory MP for Corby, Louise Mensch is beautiful, wealthy and successful. She has three kids, a husband and several best selling novels. She also, whatever you think of her politics, was carving out an impressive place for herself at the Palace of Westminster. Until yesterday that is, when she announced she was packing […]
Newsroom dramas – what they really need
Have you seen The Newsroom? It’s an American drama where a news anchor decides he’s going to make the transformation from Ron Burgundy to, well, someone brimming with integrity and with a fixation on The Truth. But the truth is a notoriously flexible thing, so clearly he’s on a hiding to nothing. The fact that the anchor […]
