Margaret Thatcher's dead. My Twitter feed is being pretty restrained, I think, which is nice. I ain't mourning her passing, she hurt so many people, she paved the way for the hurt so many people are suffering today as the poor continue to be demonised, but I can't celebrate anybody's death ( Read more... )

Hurrah! Obama still US President! Thanks, Americans.

V glad to see an all-time high for female Senators too, and the first openly gay Senator elected and those crazy men who think rape is A-OKAY defeated.

Going to bed now.

I'm staying up to watch the US election. I have some wine. Currently, there's a very sensible American on the BBC live coverage saying "trickle down economics is bullshit". He didn't actually say bullshit, but that's what he meant ( Read more... )

This is the closest I've ever been to feeling fannish about Joss Whedon:

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I'd heard about Julia Gillard calling the Leader of the Opposition a misogynist but I only just got a chance to watch it. And, yeah, she's magnificent. It's not often I find myself tearing up over a political speech (shusht), but here Gillard is just amazing, and powerful, and right.

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I don't follow Australian politics closely, I don't know what ( Read more... )

In a determined attempt to make there be less tabs open in my browser, I'm blogging about All The Stuff that's currently open as a result of "ooh, I should blog about that." Obviously, it's all brilliant, fascinating stuff:

• The Thick of It is back on the telly! Having two whole British programmes on that I love is a novelty of delight. Also, there ( Read more... )

The Scottish Government have announced (at last!) that same-sex marriage is to be legalised in Scotland.

Local council elections! The second dullest of all UK elections! But never mind for the results are pretty cheering and make me feel a wee bit happier knowing that the country has, in fact, noticed the sheer shitness of the Coalition. (Though London still seems to want Boris as their mayor, I DON'T EVEN KNOW ( Read more... )

I should really stop being surprised about Horrendously Fucked-Up Things Concerning Women's Rights in the US, but for health insurance BEING A WOMAN WAS A PRE-EXISTING CONDITION WTF? Insurance companies could charge women up to 50% more than men for their premiums FOR BEING A WOMAN?! I mean, I pay some attention to American politics and I'd no idea ( Read more... )

So I've been trying to ignore the Republican Presidential candidate race because it's so incredibly depressing. About half of America is going to vote for one of these awful, awful people, and that's just...fucking hell, it's just shit. It's really, really shit that the richest and most powerful country in the world has so many people that hate ( Read more... )