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Generational Guilt
2011 is not a good year to be in the age bracket 18 – 24. As the current coalition government (given the odious sobriquet ConDem) continue their spending cuts in what many are dubbing Austerity...
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Census
Many of you will have received the purple and white envelope through the letterbox in the last day or two, and if you are super organised like me you will have already posted it back to the Office of...
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Amy Winehouse – Death of the Brightest Star
I wasn’t going to write about Amy Winehouse’s tragic death at twenty-seven, especially as there are thousands of articles and blog posts currently on the internet, but then it seems almost weird not...
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Amy Winehouse and the Death Industry
When a high profile celebrity dies suddenly, dies tragically, dies well before their time the same old clichés are rolled out by newspapers for a readership salivating with eagerness. It has become a...
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Abdellah Taïa: A Boy to be Sacrificed
There is an excellent opinion piece in the New York Times by Abdellah Taïa on his disturbing childhood as an effeminate boy in Morocco. Taïa is an openly gay Morrocan writer who lives in Paris...
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The Veruca Salt Generation
“I want the world, I want the whole world… Give it to me now!” Thus famously sang Veruca Salt, one of Roald Dahl’s most memorable characters from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964) and...
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Child of Thatcher
I was born in January 1979, just four months before Margaret Thatcher was elected as the first woman Prime Minister in the UK. I cannot remember those first infant months when James Callaghan’s Labour...
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Converting our civil partnership to civil marriage
Yesterday, husband and I converted our civil partnership into civil marriage – an historic day for both of us. The law changed on 10th December 2014 after a long consultation process which started just...
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