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Article by me on Independent website

I wrote a piece about women in the UK asylum system.  Already the nasty comments have started. Do the trolls never sleep?

3 days ago

My appearance on BBC Radio 4, Four Thought

Was broadcast today.  You can hear it in full here, please give it a listen!

24 may 12

Independent blog fail on religion

Well I must say this piece on the Independent blog really made my blood boil. Its called "Islam and Christianity must renovate religion: Atheists have to stop trashing it." Ugh. So heres my l...

24 may 12

Daily Mega-Fail

Yesterdays Daily Mail: Brave woman speaks out about child sex abuse.Todays Daily Mail: Wa-hey, look at this sexy fifteen-year-old!Seriously.  How do they sleep at night?

04 may 12

Heavyweight Smurthwaite

I LOVE this cartoon made about me by Lucas Black.  Thank you!! Do go and read more on his blog here.

22 apr 12

Ultimate gig

Just a very quick blog post for the benefit of those who dont follow/use Facebook or Twitter. Tonight and tomorrow Im hosting two of the most awesome comedy shows of the year in central London. If yo...

20 apr 12

Career Girls. This really needs a line-by-line.

I dont know which to feel sorry for the most - my head or my office wall, for there is no doubt that the two will be making repeated thumping contact over the next half hour or so. The Daily Mail has...

15 apr 12

BNP irony overload

You may have noticed that BNPs candidate for mayor of London is, erm, how do I put this...? Well, the guy, hes, erm, hes foreign. Seriously, born in Uruguay to Spanish and Italian parents. Of course ...

13 apr 12

Why thank you Daily Mail, so THATS how my body works?

The Daily Fail really has outdone itself today. First grab a handkerchief or something you can ram into your mouth if you dont want to annoy the neighbours with uproarious laughter. Now let me tell y...

11 apr 12 1 person likes this

Tough pro-choice rally

Im briefly seen (but not heard) shouting through a megaphone in this interesting video. What was horrible about the anti-choice protest was that 40 days for life is an aggressive extremist group who ...

03 apr 12

Me on BBC Womans Hour again today!

So yes Ill be on BBC Radio Four Womans Hour today again - do tune in, right now. It was pre-recorded so I know what I say, though I dont know what parts of the interview theyll play. Basically Cristi...

27 mar 12

What is the Latin for hernia?

OK, so its not hernu, which is a shame cos students across the country could memorise it easily just by thinking about the notion of a major pain in the arse.Tomorrow morning 7am on LBC I shall be la...

25 mar 12

Bishop admits to me that the bible is lies!

Found this lovely clip someone has cut and put up on the internet from The Big Questions. Its more recent than "the bitchslap" but I think its interesting, not least because this rude pompous...

15 mar 12

Daily Mail celebrates Intl Womens Day with massive irony overload!

The Daily Fails editors really must be laughing their socks off today after publishing this delightful piece criticising an Oxford University student for making a joke about her breasts on a statemen...

06 mar 12

Join me on the bridge!!

Regular readers will know that I teach English to a group of predominantly Congolese asylum seeking women and that I did a run last year in aid of Women for Congo Women which is a part of Women for W...

04 mar 12

Abortion, Dorries, Phillips and me.

AKA (as suggested on Twitter) Bodily Autonomy Deathmatch I and IILast Thursday a story appeared on the front page of the Telegraph claiming some abortion providers in the UK were providing abortions ...

01 mar 12

Womans Hour and Joan Baez!

So I was on BBC Radio 4 Womans Hour today talking about the Unilad scandal. Plus in the green room I met Joan Baez - another guest on the show. You can listen to it all again here for the next seven ...

21 feb 12

Back on banter and the BBC

Ill be on BBC Radio Four Womans Hour tomorrow (10am onwards) discussing the Unilad scandal and whether we can just dismiss overt sexism as "hilarious" comedy banter. Do tune in if youre about...

20 feb 12

Vajazzling WOW

If youd like to see me arguing with Dawn Porter about vajazzling at the WOW festival on the South Bank, youd better get a ticket here.

20 feb 12

My Dawkins encounter in full!

So finally time for me to give the full account of the Rally for Free Expression at which Richard Dawkins spoke and then directly afterwards I spoke (eek!) and then I spoke to him and all that stuff....

17 feb 12

Witch Magazine

This video of Charlie Brooker attacking The Sun newspaper for its hypocrisy is great. Well worth a watch.However I must add that Mr Brooker is in fact wrong. The Sun HAS gone after actual witches too...

17 feb 12

Dawkins and me

Very excited to announce that on Saturday I shall be speaking at the Free Expression Day of Action outside parliament. So is Richard Dawkins! (Giggles excitedly!) And loads and loads of other cool pe...

09 feb 12

Fun, grump, fun

So firstly I had such a wonderful time in Sweden its not true. Thanks so much to all the lovely people who put me on and up and entertained me. Malmo Comedy Festival was ace. Of course I only underst...

03 feb 12

I bash the bishop!

Ha ha, dying to use that title!! And luckily its very justified today. I got a last minute call to appear on BBC Radio Wales phone-in show with presenter Jason Mohammad. Up for discussion is the pres...

26 jan 12

Dear Money Advice Service

You may all have seen the expensive television adverts urging members of the public worried about their finances to contact the governments free independent Money Advice Service. So I did..."Hi, ...

25 jan 12

That irrefutable evidence for God in full...

[for the benefit of those living overseas or who missed The Big Questions on January 15th or the iPlayer version while it was up]Are you unconvinced about the existence of God? Sceptical about claims...

25 jan 12

For Overseas Readers

Finally the best bit (I think) of the debate from The Big Questions on 8th Jan has appeared magically on YouTube. So here it is!!

16 jan 12

Time to Tune In

So firstly The Big Questions episode where Im debating whether theres any evidence for God is up here. And BBC Londons Lady Lounge with me chatting to Kath Melandri is also up here, I arrive about 33...

15 jan 12

The Big Questions: What You Missed, The Quran, Harry Potter

Im on The Big Questions again tomorrow morning. Its already been recorded so I know what happens. A couple of comments:(1) I spend a lot of time with my hand in the air trying to get them to come to ...

15 jan 12

Sexual imbalance

Dear BBC, I know it can be hard to tell what is and isnt news. Let me help. This isnt. Its a video story by a woman and has the title "Why I had sex with 40 men I met online". Reading the det...

12 jan 12

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