Linked to my last post (and one of the comments left on Jeremy Vine's article) I have a question:

( You're on a bus... )

One of those debates that comes up again and again is how to react when you see a crime being committed and, in the UK, we seem to be in the midst of another round of it.

There's an interesting article by Jeremy Vine on how he has reacted to anti social behaviour in the past, and how he plans to in the future.It did make me wonder what I would do ( Read more... )

So the latest incarnation of the race in fandom (or more generally race in the media) debate seems to be occurring in the Transformers fandom.

(which I'll admit made me at first go, but they're robots but, well, Jazz was always quite clearly coded black and obviously there are humans around too. I really need to actually see the movie before it ( Read more... )

*blinks ( Read more... )

Women would get the legal right to breastfeed in public, under a new law being proposed by the government.I thought that would be over interest to a fair number of you, especially after NippleGate last year ( Read more... )

I, along with half the western world, have been finding it impossible to completey ignore Miss Paris Hilton's prison stay. It occured to me however that the general reaction to her release into house arrest has been a little... unthinking is, I suppose, the word ( Read more... )

I've been reading the latest posts in the (now)slow-burning SGA race discussion. I don't know who else is still following it but there have been some fascinating posts that have certainly made me at the very least stop and think about what I'm writing and why (and also wish i could coherently talk about the differences between the UK and the US in ( Read more... )

In the continuing series of Sarah links to random BBC articles I give you:

Misery Lit... read onWhich is a piece about all those books that seem to be around documenting childhood traumas and angst-ridden experiences. As you can guess by my oh so subtle sarcasm I'm not an enormous fan of such things but really if you want to wallow in someone ( Read more... )

Oh dear. I'm a bit awful when it comes to remembering birthdays but I think there really must be something wrong when instead of me managing to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY KATE yesterday what actually happened was I received a pretty card and copy of Coming of Age for the Chalet School from her in the post this morning...

Thank you euphrosyna and sorry I forgot ( Read more... )

That Sir Trevor MacDonald thing I mentioned somewhere on a previous post *points vaguely* if anyone's still interested in coming on Friday kathrynw has two spare tickets still, just comment here and I'll make sure she sees it as I think her post was locked.

Anyway.

I have no real point except that I think a lot of you will like this:
You don't have to ( Read more... )