Jade Goody: Living and Dying in the public eye

The Anti-Roomers on the news that Jade Goody is dying of cancer and plans to live out her remaining time in the public eye. We’d love to hear your thoughts, feel free to jump in in the comments section.
LEIGH: Sweet Lord. Try as I might, I can’t stop rubbernecking the whole sorry saga that is [...]

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Why I’ll never forget John Mortimer…

I was sad to hear this week that John Mortimer (of Rumpole of the Bailey fame) passed away at 85. I wasn’t particularly a huge fan of his avuncular barrister creation, but as a kid I got a kick out of the fact that he called his wife Hilda “She Who Must Be Obeyed”. Mortimer [...]

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Get Up, Stand Up

Angry about the government’s decision to abandon (for the time being, at least) the cervical cancer vaccination programme? Me too. Luckily, the ladies of the Feminist Open Forum are organising a demonstration against it tomorrow. If you want to take part, meet at the Spire in O’Connell Street at two tomorrow, Saturday the 15th of [...]

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Is Sarah Palin a granny?

John “I can’t remember how many houses I have” McCain is a canny man. Not content with stealing Obama’s thunder by announcing his vice-Presidential running mate less than 24 hours after the Democrat convention, he reveals that – gasp! – it’s a woman. Sarah Palin – an easy-on-the-eye “hockey mom” (albeit one who earned the [...]

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Bored at work?

If, like me, you like word games, this website is good fun, not unlike that word section in the Cranium board game (of which, more later…that game is just legendary). Playing this word game seems fairly altruistic too…for every word that you define correctly, they donate grains of rice to the UN World Food Programme. I’m not entirely sure whether or not [...]

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Bloody Hell

Great minds think alike, and all that: the new issue of Bust arrived through my letter box yesterday, and in it was a little piece about Mon.thly.info, which I wrote about at the weekend (and if you’re interested, and I assume you’re not, was totally accurate yet again – thanks, Mon.thly.info!). Why I am mentioning [...]

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Shout Out to Auntie Flo

Why the internet has made our lives better, part ten zillion: Mon.thly.info, a site that helps you to keep track of Auntie Flo, the Red Menace, and whatever other insane euphemisms you can think of for your periods. Just register at Mon.thly.info, tell the site when your last couple of periods started, and it’ll figure [...]

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Was there abortion in 1950’s Ireland?

A few weeks ago, I had a fascinating conversation with an aunt of mine. She is the only girl in a family of strapping big brothers, so when she told me that she’d had a sister who had died in infancy, I found it really sad. As it turned out, this was the tip of [...]

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