Identity Politics

12 Mar

This from a woman who describes herself as ‘exited from prostitution, highly critical of the practice of buying sex and increasingly alienated within feminist circles’: Trans activists [seek] to convince you that because a small minority have  ambiguous genitalia or … Read More »

Old Age Pensions

10 Mar

Next year my partner Jackie will turn sixty. For most of her working life that had been the age of eligibility for a state pension the OECD says is the lowest in the developed world.  But as you may have … Read More »

My February reads

29 Feb

Reshaping global food production in the image of corporate imperialism … a brief and bloody history of capitalism in its lead nation … the pillorying of the world’s most famous whistle-blower … Welcome to my reads of the month. * … Read More »