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I Left my Heart in San Francisco
At Walnut Creek BART Station San Francisco is one of my favourite places to visit. California reminds us that “America” is not a homogeneous entity, and San Francisco revels in mould-breaking. It is the epicentre not just of tolerance but of the celebration of creative individuality, difference and diversity. In San Francisco, you can be…
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Female Spaces
Five years ago, Andrew Gilligan – he of the “sexed up” dossier about Iraq – wrote a piece for the Sunday Times about sexual assaults in public swimming pools. The majority of sexual assaults (120) in swimming pools occurred in unisex changing rooms, with only 14 occurring in single sex changing rooms and 46 in…
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Pittsburgh
I love visiting the United States. However, while I know some parts of the country very well, there are others with which I have a much more limited acquaintance. I’ve been to Boston many times, but in general, my knowledge of the North-East coast of the US is poor. Work took me to Pittsburgh in…
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The Quisling
There is indubitably a problem with some activists for the transgender cause. We’ve seen transwomen posting aggressively on social media, running hate campaigns and even, in some cases, throwing punches. It feels rather like toxic masculinity in a frock. Activists (and many of my friends on social media) complain loudly about “TERFs” (by which they…
Mrs Benn 