1. Tonight (February 22nd) is the 87th Academy Awards, or the Oscars. The sensible bets seem to be on Eddie Redmayne for Best Actor and Julianne Moore for Best Actress. Best Picture is a more difficult category to call, with Boyhood and Birdman… Read More ›
1. In an attempt to win the female vote, the Labour party has sent out a patronising pink bus onto the British streets. Harriet Harman, the Deputy Labour Leader, has called it ‘magenta’, not pink, and denies that it is patronising, instead… Read More ›
The fabulous women in charge at Standard Issue magazine are collecting recommendations for your next television box set. Here’s me writing about why you should opt for the brilliant HBO drama, Big Love.
Chain-smoking Carla (MyAnna Buring) works at her local Morrisons and is pregnant with her fifth child. Heather is wealthy, left-leaning and Guardian-reading and has been trying for four years to have a baby. The two women were at school together, and,… Read More ›
I left the cinema feeling wiped out and emotionally drained, exhausted after not been allowed to relax for almost two hours. Whiplash is a gruelling experience for the audience, but that’s nothing compared to what is undergone by its protagonist, Andrew, a drummer just… Read More ›
Out and About in London 