Moonballs from Planet Earth

I visited the Iona School yesterday for their Advent Fayre. Some good friends' children attend this excellent school. It was a very nic...

See the player in the blue t-shirt? She is Dr Emily Ryall, Senior Lecturer in the Philosophy of Sport at the University of Gloucestershire. ...

The war in Afghanistan is not going that well. It is not clear what exactly the fighting is for. Young soldiers are getting killed. There is...

...Peter Jackson, requiring a wrathful army for Helm's Deep, bravely ventured onto a cricket pitch, during a break, and asked twenty-fiv...

Patriarchal cultures generally build their female characters around two polarized archetypes: the Madonna and the Whore. And so real women c...

The last blog post was about Barbie, much reviled by feminists for warping the way girls think about themselves. My take was that Barbie was...

Barbie is right up there, along with McDonald’s and the Marlboro Man, as a capitalist icon that liberals love to hate. Not without reason. B...