So you’re made redundant. You’ll be gutted and maybe confused about what next. Here’s the best unkept secret: the quicker you can say to yourself (and then to others) ‘hello world’ and ‘I’m coming to get you’, the quicker you’ll find meaningful alternative employment. And just to emphasise the point: the longer you don’t, the [...]

When you’re out, going about your business, who owns you?  Strange question, you may think.  Men have developed the power to invade our personal space in a variety of ways and that it’s tolerated implies that women’s bodies are seen as public property. Women have experienced street harassment from time immemorial; the leers, drivers honking, [...]

The most surprising event for me last week was hearing the British Prime Minister apologise publicly for the atrocities British troops committed in Derry in 1972. The expressed remorse of a Tory premier would no doubt have contributed towards the healing process of those Irish men and women that have waited 38 years for the [...]

Why in this day and age would an educated black person use the offensive term ‘coconut’, (black exterior, white interior)? Shirley Brown, African-Caribbean Lib-Dem Councillor did when she insulted her Asian Tory counterpart during a council meeting. Look where it landed her…. in court, accused of racial harassment and with a criminal record. But shouldn’t [...]

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves: Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? Your playing small doesn’t serve the [...]