I cannot be the only woman in the media left slack jawed at newspaper condemnation of the BBC over an alleged ‘culture of abuse’. Not that we approve of what happened in Jimmy Savile’s grubby dressing room, Rolls or caravan. No we are shocked by the easy way the tabloids
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I want to play. Nah, not the awful depressing ‘adult’ variety of play that plagues us with requests in our junk mail folder. I want to play like a child. You see I’ve just read Sarah Salway’s piece for the issue of Mslexia I am editing (out in September). It’s
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I am going to have a rant. Sorry, but after this weekend, I need one. What is the point of offering choice when those choices are ignored? That is the question I was left asking after the local education authority refused my child – among others – a place at
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What do you get if you get a Cabinet of millionaires? A concerted attack on women. No wonder Chris Huhne’s ex appears to be so bitter. I realised this when Nick Clegg was wheeled out earlier in the week to defend government proposals to abolish Child Benefit for families where
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I was at an industry ‘do’ the other day when someone I haven’t seen for a while asked ‘How are you?’ ‘I’m fine, working hard, getting lots of work’ I replied. She looked at me with the kind of concern usually reserved for elderly residents of care homes and said: ‘No,
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My cleaner has just handed me a tub of tomato soup, prepared last night for Babster. What am I to make of this? Is she implying the Babster is malnourished? Is she commenting on my admitted lack of expertise in the kitchen? Or is she, as one mother to another,
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Welcome to the Madame Perrier section of my blog. It is a personal blog – as opposed to being about books, business or otherwise – in which I will write about daily life, motherhood and the general concerns of a 21st Century woman trying to juggle too much. If you wonder
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