'Under no circumstances should one pay attention to those who tell one: 'Don't crticise, since you're not capable of carrying out a reform.' That's ministerial cabinet talk. Critique doesn't have to be the premise of a deduction which concludes: this then is what needs to be done. It should be an instrument for those who fight, those who resist and ( Read more... )

...Happy International Women's Day!

I suggest you celebrate it by reading what my amazing cousin has to say on women in politics (she's Miss Alcroft, whose first comment on seeing herself quoted in a national newspaper was irritation that they hadn't called her Ms.)

Simple pleasures #1: watching the Masterchef final whilst eating your own lovingly prepared dinner of beans on toast.

The BBC is ON IT at the moment :
season two of Mad Men and Damages, amazing american imports that presumably channels four and five would have killed for

Party Animals, presumably being repeated because Matt Smith is just a bit more high profile now...  I missed it the first time around, I think it must have been whilst I was in Australia, I am ( Read more... )

Things I have done during reading week:

- Agreed to go to the Rio's Sunday double without even asking what was showing, because it always involves breakfast beforehand, vegan chocolate cake inbetween the films, and drinks afterwards. It turned out to be two 60s Pinter films: three hours of slow burning tension, covetable clothes and Dirk Bogarde's ( Read more... )

Places I would rather be than London in the rain...
( sunny day porn )

Mes amis,

Having made a grand total of 12 entries in the last 24 months, I've decided to start writing in here again. I'll spare you my pretentious reasons why, because I am kind and good. Welcome back! Those of you who are still writing, it has been a pleasure keeping up with your lives over the past couple of years. I bloody love the internet.

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Dear Karl Rove,

You can't be Beowulf and Grendel. Unless you're hunting yourself.

Sincerely,

failed literature student

The east coast of Australia is just beaches and beer. Which is fun for a couple of weeks and then kind of dull, but t'was lovely to get some sun and I have a camera full of delightful sunset pictures/bartime pictures. Awesome to be back in Sydney, even if it is absolutely bloody freezing after the lush tropicalness of Cairns. Getting into Sydney ( Read more... )

Lil update, just for anyone who'd been wondering if I was still alive.

I am still alive!

I stumbled into a freaking awesome NGO job in Sydney that pays better than I've ever been paid in England (but then the exchange rate sterling/aussie $ is good) and cost of living in Sydney is SO much cheaper than London. Have developed an huge and completely ( Read more... )