Category Archives: News

74 – Elizabeth Taylor dies, another hole in our cultural comfort blanket

Posted on March 23, 2011 by

74/291 Within what feels like minutes, people all over facebook and twitter have changed their profile pics to various beautiful images of Elizabeth Taylor; people are tweeting humorous quotes by her; YouTube clips of her finest film moments are posted … Continue reading →

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60 – Comment is Free – A scary fact for most feminists

Posted on March 9, 2011 by

60/305 Jessica Reed from the Guardian’s Comment Is Free, kindly tweeted about a piece today written by feminist writer Jill Filipovic, for Comment is Free America. In her article Traditional marriage is dead. Let’s celebrate which basically explored how “A … Continue reading →

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52 – Anti-gay couple cannot become foster parents

Posted on March 1, 2011 by

52/313 The best response to the news that Anti-gay Christian couple lose battle to become foster parents was: “Good. I have a LOT of religious tolerance but only for tolerant religions,” by random commenter Chris Horner. I couldn’t have put … Continue reading →

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30 – Gary Moor – Grief by proxy

Posted on February 7, 2011 by

30/335 “Guess what,” said Kevin my partner before he was even fully through the door. “I know” I replied. We both knew and it was the first thing we wanted to tell each other. Gary Moore has died, he was … Continue reading →

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21 – The Daily Mail Tattoo Scandal

Posted on January 29, 2011 by

21/344 There is something deeply disturbing about the Daily Mail (yes I know the sentence should end there) and its obsessive condemnation of women with… wait for it… Tattoos! The most recent victim was regular journo-fodder Cheryl Cole, who underneath … Continue reading →

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20 – Stop Press! Gay couple with baby

Posted on January 28, 2011 by

20/345 The hot topic on several non-serious news sites this morning was the story of the US supermarket Harps, who placed a ‘Family shield. To protect young Harps shoppers’ in front of a magazine picturing Elton John, David Furnish and … Continue reading →

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