Sheffield-based freelance journalist, writer, proofreader and podcaster. Not always able to suppress strong opinions. On Twitter @PhilippaWrites.
I’m making a zine about sex after rape: the good, the bad and the ugly. If you have something to say on the topic, I would love to hear from you.
As a long, long list of men in the film industry accused of sexual harassment and abuse gets ever longer, and Trump seeks to silence his accusers, politicians in London are being put under the spotlight for their past improprieties.
The UK General Election in June of this year turned around with some quite unexpected results. One of these, on the other side of my city, was the former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg being beaten by a relatively unknown man called Jared O’Mara, a Labour…
Some years ago, I sat on a bench in the city centre and the man sitting next to me looked at me, looked at my walking stick, and said “Get off your arse and get a job”.
I told him I had a job. He spat back, “No you haven’t, you’ve got a [walking] stick!”.
In the last few days, how many times have we heard a famous man say “It’s important that I speak out against the sexual harassment by Harvey Weinstein because I have a daughter, a sister, a mother, or a wife”? A movie executive has…