Good riddance to the Jeremy Kyle Show
At 9.25am every weekday for the last 14 years, an obnoxious and angry man has dominated the morning TV airwaves. The Jeremy Kyle show blasted through more than a million people’s TVs every day,...
Category: Europe
Why the Conservative Party was thrashed in England’s local elections
Yesterday, voters in England and Northern Ireland voted in local council elections. The results of local elections are always interesting because people vote differently locally compared to...
Stop using kink as a defence for rape
A woman in Scotland was in an abusive relationship. She had been battered and beaten by her partner but, until one particular night, he had never sexually abused her. But he came home drunk in the...
Who will replace Theresa May?
Theresa May has made a big balls-up of Brexit again. Actually, I don’t know if it’s ‘again’ so much as a continuous state of being. Desperate to get fellow Conservatives to vote for her...
If LGBT issues are confusing to kids, that’s why they belong in schools
When there’s something that children find confusing, the role of a teacher is to explain it in a way that they can comprehend. Maths, for instance, is ever-so confusing and every teacher from when...
Brexit: a blurry and indistinct summary of the latest blather
It’s a funny thing, writing a story about Brexit this week. There has been a lot of news. A lot. I’ve had the BBC News channel on almost constantly and I still only have a passing familiarity...
A man you’ve never heard of died. Here’s how he changed the world
I’m disabled but I don’t have a disability. For a long while, I was both disabled and able-bodied at the same time. Does that sound like it doesn’t make any sense? Let me explain. I know that...
What Sally Challen’s appeal tells us about coercive control
In 2010, Sally Challen, after suffering decades of emotional abuse at the hands of her husband, killed him (with a hammer, the tabloids love to describe). She was convicted of murder and many...
Shamima Begum should be brought home; statelessness is no solution
Four years ago, three British schoolgirls left the country and made their way to Syria to support the so-called Islamic State (aka IS, ISIS, ISIL, Daesh). Aged just 15, they had each been groomed...
London’s surprisingly open drug scene destigmatises a taboo topic
Almost four years ago I moved to London, filled with excitement of living in one of the most electrifying cities in the world. I was eighteen, just starting university and filled to the brim with...