February 2012
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New Home Office policy could mean half of Britons... →
New policy would mean that a British person would have to make over the national average wage (£25,700) to marry a foreign-born spouse.**
If this would have been the policy 2 years ago, I would have not been able to marry my husband (who made £700 under the national average at the time). Not a joke. Write or call your MP.
” not just people living on benefits but almost half the British...
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Liz Moore Music and Books: Signed HEFT giveaway →
lizmooremusic:
Dear friends,
I feel slightly uncouth doing this for reasons I can’t explain, but I’m going to do it anyway, as a thank you to you all and also as a shameless promotional tool for the book. W.W. Norton thanks you for understanding.
I’d like to give away two signed copies of HEFT. I will write…
Do this! And buy the book.
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January 2012
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Labour MP Backs Smacking of Children to Prevent... →
If smacking 3-5 year olds will prevent them from joining gangs*, I propose that every household in Britain has a “Blood in, Blood out” policy.
*Based on one MP’s half baked idea that is contrary to all empirical evidence on the subject.
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Gender Bias at NPR →
I’ve been reading quite a few articles over the past year about the gender bias in publishing. My own library choices from this month represent this 60/40 spit between male & female authors (check out my goodreads account).
Until this article spelled it out, I never really noticed how much the media genuinely ignores novels written by women and how much that can effect the literary...
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