November 12, 2011

heroes...

Simone de Beauvoir, Margaret Atwood, Madeline Albright, Christopher Hitchens, Henry Rollins, Billy Bragg, Janet Frame, Martin Amis, and Etta James would all be attendance at my [...]

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October 9, 2011

women, world peace and cows...

With laundry and commuting, endless meetings, Board papers to write, teams to motivate, projects to be delivered, the husband loved, friendships nurtured, trying to stay informed [...]

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January 10, 2011

arizona and the tea party...

I felt sick reading about the events in Arizona. Not least because America has been robbed (even temporarily) of a highly regarded female Congresswoman (the Observer yesterday quoted [...]

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November 18, 2010

fancy pants, warp-drive, bung-eye and spartapuss...

We had our End-Of-Project-Party on Monday night. Several hundred people in posh frocks and suits piled into Madame Tussuad’s for an evening of waxing lyrical (heh) [...]

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May 7, 2010

friday five: the joy of hate (for i have woken t...

*** *** *** *** From the quite brilliant Claire Murray

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May 6, 2010

international television debut...

So Science Guy and I were on the tele last night! It was a piece on kiwis that can vote in the UK election, for a [...]

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April 29, 2010

friday five: the uk election in pictures...

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April 25, 2010

the weekend: on stage, on screen and in the gard...

There is a proud kiwi tradition of spending part of the weekend at a massive hardware-cum-gardening store. I suspect its something we inherited from the Strayans, [...]

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April 6, 2010

‘gordon brown caught sewing fish into the ...

My voting card arrived on Saturday. Thursday May 6th has been announced as the UK Election. Cameron and Brown (and Clegg – bless!) have set out [...]

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March 7, 2010

how i joined the rebellion...

Strains of Bessie Smith were audible before I walked into the lecture theatre. As I took my seat I watched the professor standing at the lectern, [...]

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February 10, 2010

the robin hood tax...

‘It sounds complicated, but actually it isn’t. A tiny tax on bankers has the power to raise hundreds of billions every year – giving a vital [...]

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November 8, 2009

sicko...

While we were celebrating the failed attempt by Guido Fawkes to blow up Parliament, last night the House of Representatives passed the Democrats’ healthcare reform bill. [...]

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