The Rant Mistress

"Oh, so now she appreciates the NHS? Right. Got it. Now she wants to give birth in an NHS hospital after two babies died of...

Today, I know quite a few people who are attending the protest outside the Labour Party's headquarters in London. The protest is a...

I'm back from Menorca where I visited the remains of one of an estimated 300 Talayotic settlements because I find it impossible to ...

Come on, people. Are we really still doing this? Despite Christmas being in everyone's faces everywhere from Detroit to Dubai*, fr...

Here, in no particular order and with absolutely no sense of optimism about anything I say having any kind of influence, are some musi...

"Happily married mother of three deservedly wins baking contest" was never going to fly as a Great British Bake-Off headline....

Following on from yesterday's International Women's Day blog post, in which I looked over assorted feminist rants I wrote in 20...

Honestly, I just want to give Shamima Begum, Amira Abase and Kadiza Sultana one of my tough-love-cut-the-shit-and-get-your-act-together...

There it is. One of the cartoons that has caused at least 12 people in the office of Charlie Hebdo to lose their lives today. For thos...

The gunman is dead. Two hostages are dead. The idiocy started up within minutes of the story breaking. It was horrible to watch it unfol...

Is Turkey our friend or our foe in the battle against IS? Unsurprisingly, there is no simple answer to this question. At the time of w...

We are at war again. Gulf War Three. Because nothing much was really made better with Gulf Wars One and Two. But here we are again, star...

Has anybody who is currently exercising a disproportionate vomit of rage over the niqab ever actually spoken to a woman wearing one? ...