Disabled women are twice as likely to be victims of domestic violence as other women – and it’s harder for them to get help and get away, too … Continue reading
Month: April 2013
The Philpott Murders: In Tory Britain, women’s issues are rarely seen or heard in the media
10 April, 2013 by Hampshire Feminist Collective By Megan Sherman [content note: domestic violence, abuse] Murderer Mick Philpott’s judicial and media
Glenda Jackson on Thatcher’s legacy: “We were told it was care in the community: it was no care in the community”
Also of direct pertinence to Glenda Jackson’s speech: An open letter to American feminists on the death of
YOUR ‘Challenging your ‘bedroom tax’ decision’ toolkit by Govan Law Centre
Challenging your ‘bedroom tax’ decision If you have been issued with a ‘bedroom tax’ decision by your local council
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ATOS: A carer’s heartrending plea for help from Sarah Newton deputy chair of the Conservative Party and MP for Truro and Falmouth.
Carer’s plea for help to Sarah Newton deputy chair of the Conservative Party and MP for Truro and
An open letter to American feminists on the death of Margaret Thatcher ~ Hampshire Feminist Collective
An open letter to American feminists on the death of Margaret Thatcher 9 April, 2013 by Hampshire Feminist Collective So yesterday
Make no mistake, the politicised argument over how to remember the former prime minister is not about the past … Continue reading
In Venezuela, Hugo Chávez’s legacy on poverty is likely to get his chosen successor elected. We can’t so easily vote out Margaret Thatcher’s war on welfare … Continue reading
Documentary: Thatcher & The Scots
“To the students [of Glasgow University] I address this appeal. “Reject these attitudes. “Reject the values and false morality
Death of Margaret Thatcher: Taxpayer-funded state funeral dubbed an insult to 250,000 Scots who lost their jobs during her reign
By Torcuil Crichton, David Clegg 10 Apr 2013 07:26 THE former PM will receive a full ceremonial funeral with military honours
VIDEO: Neoliberal Labour Mourner-in-Chief Tory Bliar says “She will be sadly missed on both sides of the Atlantic”
TB has paid warm tribute to his confidante and mentor during yet another whirlwind tour on the extremely lucrative global
Thatcher’s time in power destroyed industries in Scotland and still casts a shadow over the over the independence referendum
By Annie Brown 9 Apr 2013 07:31 SHE swept like a wrecking ball through the mines, the steel industry, the car
Welfare butchery spells curtains for ‘Better Together’ campaign
THURSDAY, 04 APRIL 2013 20:25 By Mark McNaught As an American, it’s a grim day when the UK government makes
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A ‘yes’ vote in 2014 will give Scotland the power to get rid of the Bedroom Tax
‘The deeper implications of the Bedroom Tax’ By Paul Leinster Monday 8th APRIL 2013 The government’s new under-occupancy penalty or “bedroom tax”
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Thatcher gave us tax havens, arrogant banking, greed, complacence about unemployment and an end to manufacturing
By Richard Murphy Posted on APRIL 9 2013 I see no reason to celebrate the life of Margaret Thatcher. I
Owen Jones: Thatcherism was a national catastrophe that still poisons us
We are in the midst of the third great economic collapse since the Second World War: all three have taken
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The coalition is maintaining Thatcher’s project of rolling back the frontiers of the state, dismantling the settlement that held from 1945 until it unravelled in the 1970s … Continue reading
Ed Miliband: “David Cameron, Nick Clegg and myself were all shaped, in a way, by the politics of Lady Thatcher and the way she defined the politics ~ particularly of the 1980s”
Ed Miliband: “Margaret Thatcher was a ‘unique political figure”. Mr Miliband offered his condolences to Baroness Thatcher’s family and her children, Mark
Margaret Thatcher’s Scottish Legacy ~ Social Annihilation and Emigration
Black Triangle Comment: Where there was harmony, she brought discord. Where there was truth, she brought error. Where there was
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The dictate that one ‘not speak ill of the dead’ is (at best) appropriate for private individuals, not influential public figures … Continue reading