I was planning on making a post today about Margaret Thatcher's death and the "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead" campaign. I was planning on writing about how disappointing it is that people can often be more readily motivated to work from a motive of hatred rather than love or positive action. I was going to write about what all those 99 pence could ( Read more... )

I was rereading Strong Poison and something suddenly struck me, that I think has been bubbling around at the back of my mind for a while: what happened to the reputation of young people for seriousness, sincerity, the "bleeding heart ( Read more... )

Two good friends of mine had miscarriages in the past few months. The first I only learned about after the fact, the latter I heard about the pregnancy, then that there was a possible miscarriage, then that there was a definite miscarriage ( Read more... )