The 23rd most popular left-wing blogger is…me!

I’m dead chuffed to have been placed 23rd in the top 75 left-wing bloggers in the recent Total Politics awards. It’s nice to know I’m being read, and strange to see my name close to longer established journalists like George Monbiot, and ahead of people like Johann Hari, although given his own troubles this year,

Why lifting the ban on gay men giving blood has made me more angry

So, the lifetime ban on men giving blood who have ever had sex with another man has been – partially – lifted. After a 12-month ‘window period’ of effective celibacy, men who have ever had sex with another man can give blood. Great. A particularly discriminatory restriction has been lifted. It’s fine if you’re celibate,

Review: London Road

Cottesloe, National Theatre, London 14 April – 27 September 2011 If David Cameron were looking for an example of the big society in action, he may need look no further than the close-knit community of London Road, an otherwise unremarkable street in Ipswich, Suffolk. In late 2006, a group of previously disparate residents had come