Monthly Archives: April 2012

Paradise: get it while it’s still cheap

Lionel Shriver comes across as opinionated, abrasive, self-congratulatory and robust – not exactly the subtlest of writers. I don’t think she’s ever been a stylist; the kind of novelist, like Margaret Atwood, say, who was once and still is a … Continue reading

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Race is a myth?

I almost did a blog at the time in response to Deborah Orr’s February Guardian column which apparently concludes, from a professional footballing incident, that the more we talk about race the more we are being racist. Then I thought better of it. I … Continue reading

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Resolutely despairing

Heartrending piece in Guardian Family yesterday. In it, Bibi Lynch pleads with mothers to stop complaining about the stresses of our lives, for we are the truly lucky ones. She will never have the chance to complain about motherhood, for … Continue reading

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