It has drawn to a close. The IndyRef battle has been won and whether or not you agree with the result, the people of Scotland have shown that we are the best nation on Earth. I will be honest, I celebrated today but that does not mean I am anti-independence. In the end I was moved from the "No" camp to the "Maybe" camp by "Yes" voters and my current stance on the matter is "Yes, Scotland could be...
Friday, 19 September 2014
Monday, 18 August 2014
Can 200,000 signatures be ignored?
Well - crack out the champaign and raise a glass to No More Page Three. As of today, the campaign that I have been a supporter of for over a year, has reached 200,000 signatures. This is a huge achievement for NMP3 and for British feminism. Despite being nowhere near the Sun's estimated audience,...
Wednesday, 16 July 2014
"Shit, I am a feminist!"
At the age of roughly 14 I became aware of Marxism. It was my Dad who taught me about it and it is a huge part of my personal beliefs about what the world should be like. I have spent my time since then within the left field of political thinking with my ideals of the world maturing and changing as I am exposed to more and more stories about the planet on which we live. Over the next three years,...
Monday, 14 July 2014
Tories, they just can't get it right.
God it has been a week. First we found out that the is a possible cover up of child abuse claims by the Conservative party as over 100 files go missing from the home secretary. Then we find that Thatcher possibly knew of the cover up and actually helped to keep the claims out of the public eye. Last...
Wednesday, 9 July 2014
Thank you NHS!
Just a quick note - I have just got off the phone to my Gran who had to go in for bloody tests today at Ayr Hospital. She's been under the weather and they have been taking precautions in case something is the matter. When I spoke to her today she was so happy, it was like a weight had been lifted off...
Thursday, 3 July 2014
Bannockburn is not relevant?
1314 is a date that has rung through the Scottish media with great volume over the past few years. Being the year of Bannockburn, the date has a huge amount of significance to Scotland as we beat the English against the odds sending them homeward to think again. 700 years on, Scotland faces a new battle...
Friday, 27 June 2014
We Know Too Much: Is Information Overload a Challenge to Society? - My enrichment week essay.
Right from the word “go” we receive information, whether through our phones, computers, T.Vs, radio or word of mouth. Information and news dictates modern life. Without a phone or computer, you are almost non-existent. If there is a catastrophic event on one side of the world, the other will know about it within minutes and, no doubt, its T.V viewing for the night (maybe even a few nights) will...
Saturday, 14 June 2014
Scotland, listen to Hillary.
I don't like America. They're greedy, warmongering capitalists who will do anything to dominate the world whatever the cost. At least that is what it used to be like. Since Obama came into power, becoming the first black President of the United States, and we saw a change come to America. Obama has...
Friday, 13 June 2014
"The Sun is an unashamedly positive celebration of Englishness"
Ed Miliband has apologised for any offence caused by a picture released of him with a free copy of the Sun Newspaper. The picture was viewed as controversial because the Sun is #1 a right-leaning newspaper and #2 because many Labour supporters condemn the paper for its involvement in the Hillsborough...
Wednesday, 11 June 2014
Leave JK Rowling alone.
98 days until the Scottish referendum, will it go ahead or won't it? Are we reaching our final days as the "Great Britain" we know and hold dear? Nobody knows. SNP stickers are popping up all over Twitter making it seem that the party had lots of support (although by that logic the rest of Twitter is...
Sunday, 1 June 2014
Mornings
Overall, last night I had maybe 2 hours sleep maximum. Eventually, my brain just decided the manic waking was to stop and just stayed awake at around 3:30am and it has remained like that to now. Being very scared of the dark and in need of a wee quite badly, I was confined to roughly an hour of discomfort before I convinced myself to get up and do stuff eg: reading, writing, go to the toilet etc and...
Friday, 30 May 2014
Shouldn't Louise Bours apologise too?
I am no fan of Joey Barton, he is a complete fool and he plays for QPR (which I'm still fuming about considering I was at Wembley last weekend supporting the Rams). Last night he featured on Question Time for the first time as a panellist along with Piers Morgan, Margaret Curran (Scottish Labour), David...
Monday, 26 May 2014
Gove's attack on American Literature.
He has done it again and this time he is attacking literature. This man cannot help but annoy the hell out of me. Gove has announced that 'To Kill A Mockingbird' and 'Of Mice and Men' will be taken off of the GCSE syllabus in favour of "fiction or drama written in the British Isles".
The new syllabus...
Sunday, 25 May 2014
So, the EU elections... let's talk UKIP!
Well after a few days of reflection, I can say that I am pretty happy with the result. (Ignoring UKIP for now) Labour gained 338 seats and the Greens 16 where as the coalition lost a total of 538 seats between them. Labour managed to take over what is usually easy Tory stomping ground and managed to...
Friday, 23 May 2014
What percentage of MPs like a bit of tit?
The No More Page 3 campaign released information last night about the number of MPs in certain parties supported their campaign. The results are interesting.
Green Party
Labour Party
Lib Dems
Tories
Hmmmm... most of them were lower than I thought. Isn't it funny how UKIP aren't there?...
Thursday, 22 May 2014
Gender Inequality in Film
Thought that this website was really interesting!
http://www.nyfa.edu/film-school-blog/gender-inequality-in-film/
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#backfire...
My day has been lightened (although there is currently a storm brewing outside). Yesterday UKIP Harrowgate started up the #whyimvotingukip campaign again as a final push in morale before today's European elections. Over the course of Wednesday, UKIP supporters came out in their thousands raving about...
Tuesday, 20 May 2014
The Grand Eagle Ball - best gig ever?
Those familiar with Laura Marling probably know that she did a gig in "The Grand Eagle Hotel" last year. This is a video that is on her website which shows the kind of things she was up to and I wish, wish, wish I had been there...
Five women I am in awe of.
As a teenager who has been brought up on the internet, I've been surrounded by millions of voices trying to be heard and some of them have rubbed off on me. I'm at that radical phase in my life where I have something to say about anything and want to know everything and I don't think that will change....
Monday, 19 May 2014
If childhood gender roles were carried on into adulthood.
We all know it, children's advertising is a haven for misrepresentation of both sexes. As a child Barbie was shoved down my throat as the "toy I am supposed to like" although I always wanted an Action Man; pink was "my favourite colour" because I was a girl although I very much preferred green (because it was the colour of my favourite football team. Most recently, my friends (all female) and I were...