Boris Watch

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Tim Parker: women aren’t good enough for top jobs

July 13th, 2008 2 Comments

It’s interesting to notice that while James McGrath was sacked by Conservative Central Office (er, I mean by ‘Boris’) for saying something which could just about be construed as racist if taken out of context, it appears to be perfectly acceptable for the latest high-profile all-powerful appointment at City Hall to come out with something [...]

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A woman’s place is… not in City Hall

July 8th, 2008 2 Comments

After the debate on feminism at Blog Nation, as a feminist myself, I vowed to endeavour to highlight the topic in my blog postings wherever possible.
Perhaps through sexist male hypocrisy, I have barely mentioned women at all since then, but fortunately a certain former Mayor of London has made up some of my lost ground [...]

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Will Capital Woman go the way of anti-racism?

June 29th, 2008 2 Comments

A rumour (which I heard from Zohra of the F-Word blog – thanks – but have not yet found any official confirmation or denial) has been circulating that the previous Mayor’s long-established annual Capital Woman event will face the chop under Mayor Boris.
The web site describes the event thus:
Every year, capitalwoman brings London women of [...]

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