Hmmm: OK Boomer, tell us how to set up an underground abortion-provision network? ‘You have to stand up to illegitimate authority’: what veteran abortion activists can teach us in the Trump era: Last year, Heather Booth headed from her home in Washington to Georgia to tell, once again, the story of Jane. It was a disheartening moment, to consider ( Read more... )

Reading this review of a book which kicks off as a reversal-riff on Kafka's 'Metamorphosis', and then proceeds into what even the reviewer suggests is 'slightly clunking' political satire. We note that the author has suggested that his protag champions an 'unorthodox economic theory', which is one that seems similar, but not entirely the same, to ( Read more... )

Yesterday my Freedom Pass died: it had been intermittently wonky for a bit, but sufficiently intermittently for me to wonder whether it was the FP or some problem with the particular gate or whatever I was presenting it at. But yesterday it was proved terminally cracked and non-operational (and I was obliged to purchase a 1 day Travel Card to get ( Read more... )

Just checked, and I am coming up to deadline for book review I committed to some months ago and have been circling round in a nervous fashion -
- book being on subject I have written on quite a bit (not a book, it's true, but articles/chapters/bits and bobs here and there touching on the general area) -
- by somebody who I am, er, a little less ( Read more... )

Just after 11 am this morning, the household router expired.
This possibly explains a number of niggly things involving intermittent internet dropping, grotesquely slow upload to MyCloud, etc, of recent weeks.
So, anyway, this sent me off to the nearest shops, where I find that Argos is a better bet than the place that sells games, reconditioned ( Read more... )

Dept of, no, you are living the anachronistic Boys Own Adventure Dream: Benedict Allen arrives dressed like an explorer: all in green, multi-pocketed jacket, sturdy trousers, a bag that could carry accessories in the Amazon. It is a somewhat anachronistic get-up for a meeting in central London, at the Savoy hotel, but very useful given that we want ( Read more... )