Emma G Keller on women in high places: Marissa Mayer is clearly an all-or-nothing person, used to working on her terms. She is a talented woman, and we all appreciate daily what she did at Google. She seems to be having the same attractive effect on Yahoo. But does this make her a good manager? Not if that means being in touch with the goodwill of her employees. Step one in…
We all remember how Prof Mary Beard got her arse handed to her on live TV at ‘Question Time’, don’t we? Well. good. Because the narrative has shifted, she’s wrapped herself in the cloak of outraged womanhood and declared that she’s the victim of ‘trolls’ and ‘right wingers’ who mock her appearance and attack her because she’s a woman… The website owner’s protestations that this is just what’s happening notwithstanding, the…
The usual whining in the ‘Guardian’ about Muslims being ‘disadvantaged’ in the workplace throws up this rather odd little gem: Others encounter difficulties within the workplace itself, where requests for minor adaptations are met with resistance. Reema, a 34-year-old obstetrician, has to remove her hijab in order to perform surgery. She explains that her London hospital trust has been unwilling to consider small alterations to the scrubs uniform worn in…
…he can’t seem to hit one even when it’s in the room with him: The UK is one of the few major nations not to have a national forensic science institute and, in the wake of government market-based policy, no longer has a national forensic science service. The main repercussion of these deficiencies is fragmentation and creeping deregulation. Unless standards are unified, certified and monitored, unprofessional practices arise as do…
Sorry Babs & Sadhbh! Step right up, Arun Gupta! In the Cleveland and Chicago cases, the FBI is so desperate to manufacture terrorists it is now netting children. *gasp* Monsters! How old are these poor little mites? Five? Seven? Twelve? The Cleveland Five – Brandon Baxter, 20; Anthony Hayne, 35; Joshua Stafford, 23; Connor Stevens, 20; and Douglas Wright, 26 … Oh. Um…. … were allegedly goaded by a criminal…
Pupils at primary and secondary schools across Brighton and Hove will be given “early intervention” lessons to prevent abuse. The lessons for boys and girls from six years up will teach them not to hit, to be nice and how to build healthy relationships, as part of a £500,000 council strategy to cut domestic violence in the city. I’d have thought that would be better spent on teaching them to…
Dorian Lynskey (music writer for the Guardian) cheers on the rude, bite-the-hand-that-feeds ‘artiste’: Ten days ago a concert-goer at the Cedar Cultural Centre in Minneapolis made the mistake of shouting out a sarcastic request for the Knack’s 1979 hit My Sharona towards the end of a show by Georgia indie-rocker Bradford Cox’s Atlas Sound project. For his sins he was rewarded with a dissonant, hour-long, “death trance” version during which…
No, not the Climategate 2.0 email release lat last year. Not the Himalayan glaciers, which even the Grauniad concedes are pretty much the same now as they were a decade ago (it’s still “a concern”, natch – it’ll always be a concern as long as someone’s being paid to be concerned about it). Not even the German environmentalist turned sceptic, Fritz Vahrenholt, who’s written a book describing how he’s stopped believing…
I’ve mentioned before that since being online a lot of newspapers fill their virtual pages with crap that they would only ever put in the print versions on the very slowest of slow news days. Galleries are probably the best example of this trend, and often appear for almost no discernible reason. The only apparent reason for the Teletubbygraph bothering with this one of top movie FBI agents is that…
In the aftermath of last week’s headline-dominating court case, Vikram Dodd braves the mean streets of Eltham to see if racism still exists (not realising he could find plenty without ever leaving the ‘Guardian’ head office): Barber Kwabena Boateng, 35, came to Britain in 2000 from Ghana, a year after the Macpherson report. Boateng said he had not experienced any direct racism, but said: “You can’t see it, but sometimes…
Democratic socialists, republicans, feminists, anti-racists, egalitarians are in for a bad year. Worrying? Surely, this is good news? Well, no. You see, the person making that prediction is none other than Yasmin Alibhai-Brown. And she’s hardly ever right about anything… After all, the very same article contains these gems: “Next year it’ll be 40 years since I landed here. London is my place, my home, and I feel a slow-growing…
Heather Mallick, columnist for the Toronto Star, is having apoplexy: Imagine being me, being asked by the Guardian to explain why my nice country, famously full of people who spend their days hewing wood and drawing water amid a stream of apologies, has gone all, well, crap. Has it? “Is Canada suddenly being run by the Daily Mail?” the editor asked, impeccably courteous as always. Errr…. And the answer is…
Zoe Williams writes a column so bad, I can’t improve on the excellent demolition job Tim Worstall has made of it. But a few paras stuck out: …I saw plenty of counter-arguments to that, identifying poor eating habits as a result of deprivation. One was that people with kids and very little money can’t afford to waste food, so have to buy things that children are likely to eat, which…
A family face being left homeless after their home was attacked in the city. Emma Phelps, her partner, Christopher Whittaker, and her four children moved out of their rented home in Colmon Walk, Top Valley, following two incidents. On September 13 Ms Phelps’ car was set alight and, on September 22, their ground-floor windows and front door were smashed. The family say police advised them to move for their own…
Not Marmite, though of course that’s true and personally I despise it with it every fibre of my being – I’ve long since been assimilated by the Australian Borg (that’s not a Collective – THIS is a Collective) into eating Vegemite anyway. No, I’m talking about the main stream media’s tendency to print a load of misleading bollocks to beat up a non-story into something that they can fill half…
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