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My, aren’t we music critics a bunch of sensitive little flowers. We (well, some of us) are employed to take an artist’s creative output and subject it to our judgement, often taking it apart and…
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This review originally appeared on The Arts Desk. Almost 45 years after the publication of The Female Eunuch, Germaine Greer – now 75 years old and working on a rainforest conservation project in her native…
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It would be easy to accuse us a TYCI of focussing a little too much on music at the expense of other art forms although it’s difficult to blame us – both given the backgrounds…
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As my bezzer said on Facebook over the weekend: the VMAs? I think that stopped being relevant to me at some point in the late 1990s. Of course, that was before just under half of…
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Longer-term readers among you may remember that, back in 2011, I drew up a list of 30 things that I planned to accomplish before turning 30. That list remains woefully undersubscribed, as with many of…
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When I got married, I inherited grandmothers for the first time since I was eight years old. In England, they are called “nans”. They are lovely ladies we don’t see enough of, who not only…
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This review originally appeared on The Arts Desk. n the end, it was always going to come down to the last episode whether The Fall was powerful female-driven drama or, to quote another writer for…
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Trigger warning for violence against women, “bantz” and general fuckwittery. Since the FT is behind a paywall, it’s likely that you missed this genuine opening paragraph from its coverage of Pinterest’s decision to relax its…
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Nicola Meighan didn’t quite put it like this in her recent feature for The Herald, but now is probably the best time since I’ve been a part of it to be a woman in Glasgow’s…
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A quick round-up of what I’ve been doing, reading or have had no time to blog about over the past seven days. What I have learned this week: – I probably could work as a…
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