Interview: Gayle Lowery-Jones, UK SAYS NO MORE
Maisie Barker sits down with Gayle Lowery-Jones at Hestia to discuss LGBT issues, domestic abuse and UK Says No More.
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UK Says No More Launch
Hestia’s new domestic violence campaign UK Says No More launched last night, Maisie Barker reports.
Film review: High-Rise
The film was mad, dizzying, disgusting and a must-see. And please, for the love of God, release that string quartet cover of ABBA’s SOS. It’s been in my head all day.
Cocktails in the City
Maisie Barker reviews Cocktails in the City with a surprisingly alright head and liver.
Maintenance Grants – Save, Don’t Scrap
Maisie Barker reports from the frontlines of the protests to save the maintenance grant for students.
Casual homophobia and The Gay Word
Maisie Barker wonders why it’s acceptable to use the word ‘gay’ to mean ‘bad’.
Five Ways the Government Punishes Poor People
Maisie Barker looks at the Conservatives’ approach to poverty and finds it severely lacking.
Baublegate: How the Left stole Christmas (not)
This week Chester found itself in the middle of a political intrigue so dense and so intellectual that it would have made Spooks look like Only Fools and Horses.
A Tory feminist? Hogwash!
Feminism is, in one possible way, like the Bullingdon Club: you’re not in it just because you say you are.
Seeing Red: The Tampon Tax
Maisie Barker looks at the so-called ‘tampon tax’ and wonders if George Osborne has ever said the word ‘tampon’.