This week, there is a series of one-off dramas on BBC1 every day (2.15-3pm). They were written by Jimmy McGovern (of Cracker fame), I believe, and each one tells a story of somebody moving on in some way, set in a roughly Liverpool-Manchester background ( Read more... )

It's interesting what people are prejudiced about, isn't it? I was just thinking about sexism because of a certain post I was replying to, and about having been bullied for being northern. And this morning I caught a bit of that morning debate show (the one Richard Dawkins sometimes turns up on), and they were talking about religion discriminating ( Read more... )

I was reading an article in the Telegraph today (well, it was yesterday's Telegraph, Weekend section) about good restaurants in Britain - they gave a list of 50 ( Read more... )