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My best friend is a woman and I am one myself so I’m obviously not a misogynist. Having said that, it’s more than my feminist sensibilities ...

I’d have more luck publishing a piece about colonic irrigation than the NHS right now. Despite the fact that it’s the one thing that unite...

A saboteur. This statement was true when I said it 6 years ago and Phillips’ party political broadcast on behalf of UKIP last week, proves...

There once was a gombeen called Dave Who didn’t know how to behave His mates were all loaded T’was the poor that he goaded And took the ...

By rousing an audience with their passion and conviction. In the words of Michael Sheen in a speech that went viral on the internet this wee...

On the 8th of February 2012 Peter Williams, a gifted engineer and Guinness World Record holder, committed suicide after falling into arrears...

The following was published in today's Independent: Cathy was a child and a prostitute. From the age of four her parents had sex parti...

The international community’s excuse for failing to prevent the genocide in Rwanda was that they did not know what was happening until it wa...

The following was published in today's Independent Voices: I was giving a lecture shortly after 7/7 when a participant arrived late. H...

Arguing with inanimate objects is not my thing. It tends to be pretty one sided. Such was the ire invoked by listening to Radio Four yesterd...

Apart from boardrooms, the other places I’ve encountered a high concentration of psychologically dysfunctional individuals were, in the encl...

Laura McKenna was a 22 year old nursing student. Jordan was a glamour model. Both got their breasts out in public, one to breast feed her ba...

An edited version of this is published in todays Independent on Sunday. Heartfelt thanks to my Darfuri friends who risk their lives in order...

It was road safety awareness week. Tell that to the 61 people who were seriously injured today by other road users, and the 61 victims the d...

On October 31st, 200 women and girls (some as young as 7) in Darfur were raped. Locals say the attacks were carried out by the Sudanese Arme...

As someone with professional experience of working with survivors of child sex abuse, I was relieved by Fiona Woolf’s resignation as chair o...

Michael Buerk’s misogynistic comments about the rape victim of Sheffield United footballer, Ched Evans, this week should come as no surprise...

The stale, pale, male aphorism associated with our political elite is far from defunct. The run up to the election is invariably dog whistli...