Report from the London Slut Walk

Fortunately for everyone concerned there don’t seem to be any pictures of me on the London Slut Walk, though I did take a few snaps myself. The walk was a terribly civilised and jolly affair, the sun was shining the marchers friendly and the police generally low key (as long as you didn’t look down the side streets). The turn out was good with some reports claiming hundreds* and others the more realistic 5,000 odd. The banners on the walk were largely home-made witty and on topic, with the obligatory SWP placards much in the minority (and being frequently converted … Continue reading

London Slut Walk tomorrow

Just in case people had forgotten I thought I’d just remind you that the London Slut walk is tomorrow. For organisational reasons it’s the week after most of the others, which is rather handy as some of the press has already reacted and that means we can look at what they said about the other walks, and gasp in amazement as the point goes way over their heads. Just for a change we can find some idiocy over Comment is Free. After wittering on about various misinterpretations of the what the Slut Walk is about Deborah Orr finally does admit … Continue reading

That’s me told

I feel like I’ve passed some bloggers rite of passage as after leaving what i thought was a light hearted comment over at Captain Ranty’s I was roundly taken to task, and both myself and my humble witterings dismissed as as a young stripling of a Marxist globalist “trying to defend from a moral standpoint themselves living an immoral existence”. This as you can probably tell from my new “More vanity” section rather amused me Now being an incorrigible sort, but also rather careful of my manners, I just had to reply to determine what insult I’d caused – and … Continue reading