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Daniel Perrey, Thomas Thompson, Karl Peat, Jessica O’Connell, Hannah Smith, Izzy Dix and Gemma Dimmick. These are just some of the names o...

An edited version of this posting was published in todays Independent. The Daily Mail headline a couple of days ago read: "Two Americ...

This was published in today's Independent. If a parent cut off their 6 year old daughter’s arm they’d be arrested for child abuse. “Cu...

These are exciting times. When Charlotte Raven launched The Feminist Times just weeks ago, she asked the question “Where are all the interes...

It should come as no surprise that yesterday’s talks in London ended in deadlock. The template for the Syria crisis is not new. The Syrian...

On Thursday Labour MP, Gloria De Piero, made the news. Not because of her policies but because of her boobs. It seems a national newspaper o...

* This piece was published today in Open Democracy. Link will soon be uploaded to "Press" section of my website. On Sunday morni...

I was a guest on the BBC’s Sunday Morning Live yesterday. Pitched against The Daily Mail columnist, Peter Hitchens, & lived to tell the ...

Betty Makoni is the kind of woman I want to be when I grow up. She is fearless, wise and funny. Her heart is as big as the continent she hai...

Arms dealer to tyrants around the world, Russia’s new moniker of peace broker is incongruous. It’s like inviting a tax dodging Irish rock st...

I’m in the midst of preparing my presentation for an international Women’s Empowerment Summit in Crete at the end of the month (I know, it’s...

And the award for most female friendly retailer goes to…..The Co-Op! On Wednesday the company announced it was banning lad mags from its she...

*This article was published in The Huffington Post on 28 August Wednesday marks the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s seminal “I ha...

If Eric Pickles is Minister for Community Cohesion, I’m the Taliban’s Minister for Women. With 15 months to go to the next election the poli...

This was published in The Huffington Post today. Link will be added to the press section shortly. Over a week has passed since news broke ...

When Chris Mullin was Labour’s Minister for Africa we had a passionate, if brief encounter. Admittedly Chris didn’t reciprocate my fervor bu...

This piece has been published in the Huffington Post. The article will be uploaded in the "Press" section of my website www.tessfi...

This is the full version of a piece published in The Independent on Sunday today. In 2006 I was hiding out in the toilets of The British M...