Just before it all got a bit grim, I was writing a piece on women’s equality. I was thinking about women’s justified anger over our sorry sexist history, how we need to embrace that anger then get beyond it if we are going to tackle inequality properly. “Play the ball, not the man” is an… Read More
#ForTheWeb is great, now how about #ForTheWorld?
There I was, reading the paper and fretting about the usual stuff – Trump’s USA, Brexit, populism, the crisis of democracy – when I spotted an article about Tim Berners-Lee launching the #ForTheWeb campaign. In case you haven’t caught up with it yet, #ForTheWeb is a campaign to get the Internet back to its original… Read More
#MeToo, Boris, Ken and managing prejudice at work
You don’t need me to tell you that politics of hate is big right now, from Brexit to alleged antisemitism in the UK Labour party, from #MeToo to popularist political movements fuelled by distrust or hatred of other social groups. There’s been plenty of speculation and debate about the causes, so I’d like to focus… Read More
