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Young women are doing disproportionately well in this recession. Girls have outperformed boys at GCSE and A-level for the tenth consecutive...

Despite an international outcry, Iran seems determined to have Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, 43, stoned to death for adultery. Her plight has ...

Today is the anniversary of the Peterloo massacre, when pro-democracy and anti-poverty protesters in Manchester were brutally murdered by m...

Yup, I haven't even managed to cross-post this week, because I became homeless *again* and had to scrabble for a place to live whilst fi...

Before the left gets too precious about David Davis' reported comments on the ' brokeback coalition ', we should give our sluggi...

Whilst we're on the subject of Britishness, here's something we can all feel proud of: cops without guns. The fact that we don't...

I've never given much time to the sartorial semiotics of sporting fashion, but one tight, hot pink tshirt has me fascinated. The tshirt ...

This morning, Vince Cable signposted his plans for a change in university funding , whereby graduates might find themselves repaying the cos...

When I closed the final pages of Francis Beckett's new book, ‘What Did The Baby Boomers Ever Do For Us?’, I found myself shaking with in...

This week, the press seems unable to decide whether the recession is going to be good for men and bad for women, or good for women and bad f...

On the bus this morning, a young father was distributing pocket money to his three small children. The eldest was kicking the back of my cha...

The new series of Britain's Next Top Model, which airs tomorrow after months of breathless publicity, is set to be the most screechingly...

Nick Clegg is angling for some much-needed goodwill from the left with his announcement this morning that the public will be able to nominat...

If the Conservative party is looking for a theme song that really sums up its message for the next election, it could do worse than Beyonce ...

I've now received over fifty emails full of rage and hope and ideas. The internet is wonderful, you're all wonderful, and you're...

ETA Saturday morning: I've edited out some of the melodrama but decided to keep this on the net, because it doesn't do to be ashamed...

Panto season came early this year. Watching Gideon George Osborne take the floor on Tuesday to announce the execution of the welfare state ...

Apologies for being scant in cross-posting and monitoring comments - I'm currently trying to work three jobs whilst living out of a suit...

In a poll assessing 'what takes priority in your life?', the Daily Mail offers its female readers only two priorities : their husban...

I gave this speech yesterday at the youth panel at the Compass conference, 'A New Hope'. After writing this in a fit of pique at the...