Philobiblon

This is now the former site of Philobiblon; I won't be posting here any more, although I do plan to keep the site up for at least a whil...

There are some interesting characters in 15 Minutes , which has just opened at the Arcola Theatre. Maggie (Moira Brooker) is a veteran telev...

My organic delivery box has held them for weeks, and they've been sitting at the back of the fridge, looking reproachfully at me wheneve...

After one brief, disastrous journey (to Bali as a green young Australian, with the sister of my boyfriend, who insisted I do the bargaining ...

Common sense on trafficking: police are threatening to report brothel customers for rape if they use the services of women they know to be ...

Yes, should you have happen to have had Sky News Live at 5 on at about 5.45pm British time, that was me on there talking about blogging. Alm...

Radio 4's Women's Hour serial this week is I Leap Over The Wall , by Monica Baldwin, about which I've previously blogged ( he...

A piece today in the Guardian about an address to the Lords by Baroness Susan Greenfield expressing far-reaching fears about the effect on ...

As the victim of an overweight childhood encouraged by the "it is only healthy baby fat", I was taken by this : "BREAST-FEEDI...

I was at a party with a lot of lawyers last night, and there were some truly hideous ASBO stories floating around. (Anti-Social Behaviour Or...

A neat little snippet from the latest issue of Green World , the Green Party magazine. "In Wales, landless peasants would work round th...

I've written elsewhere about theories that humans have been, until very recent history, as often prey as predator , and there's an i...

Ten brilliant posts, and ten new (to me) women bloggers worth waiting for.. that's why they are Femmes Fatales. Starting out on politics...

... that the site has been down for a few hours. What the instructions I found for importing a Blogger blog to it don't say is that the...

Spend a few minutes, or hours, with Katherine Mansfield (in her journal), or W. N. P. Barbellion (an amazing early 20th-century character...

The Australian state of NSW has introduced a provision for previously given evidence to be used in rape trials should a retrial be required...

I read today about a neat protest against Victoria's Secret, which mails 395 million catalogs annually [in the US], most printed on virg...

My 19th-century blogger Miss Frances Williams Wynn is today indulging in a good old gossip about French royalty - particularly the Duke of ...

One reason why I enjoy canvassing is the glimpses it provides into the many styles of London life. Some of the glimpses are, however, almost...

Sometimes it is the small(er) things that really reveal the fundamental nature and mindset of regimes. In America, the Bush government is re...

From the Guardian : Bloggers and internet pundits are exerting a "disproportionately large influence" on society, according to a r...

The Carnival of Feminists No 13 IS UP, and Terry has done a spectacularly good job. It ranges widely in space and time, from that increasin...

A discovery for medical science: I've identified a new syndrome - leafletter's knuckle. After delivering about 2,700 Green Party lea...

Carnivalesque No 14 is now up on Earmarks in Early Modern Culture and it is a fascinating "Cabinet of Curiosities", with a partic...

It looks like India is producing a new "Bandit Queen" . The report : Three years ago, 16-year-old Jagari Baske vanished from a rem...