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Had a rather lovely review (of my solo show Apes Like Me) from one4review.com. You may read it here . If you are headed to Edinburgh you m...

A short story about me appears in the Independent's "festival diary" today. It's pretty self-explanatory.

Female heterosexual readers currently in a sexual relationship (of whatever commitment and intensity level), may wish to direct their partne...

Too busy for "real" blogging but a couple of interesting things. 1) Did a Radio Five Live discussion this morning with the truly d...

Phew! Well obviously not a spare second for blogging in August but here's a quick update from the festival. Shows going well. My solo...

In case anyone hadn't heard - my solo Edinburgh show Apes Like Me opens tomorrow 7pm C Soco Urban Garden and you can buy tickets right h...

First a warning: if you're reading this while having a bowl of breakfast cereal - finish eating before you click the link, otherwise you...

If you're one of these free-thinking leftie, tree-hugging radical types who thinks stoning women to death for adultery comes under the h...

I know I shouldn't read the Daily Mail but someone sent me the link and I got curious. This article is disgusting. The story is about...

Welcome one and all to the 25th Carnival of Socialism . There's no special theme to the carnival other than "political stuff from ...

I have been asked to host the next Carnival of Socialism right here on the Cru-blog. It'll be out on 25th July. So you've got til...

Saw this on Alternet. Yet another reason (completely ignored rape would be the first one ) why letting privately contracted companies run...

Eeeek - what is wrong with my blog!!! Lost a ton of stuff transferring over to "new" blogger thinking that would solve it. And n...

No-one, I assume, labours under the illusion that military institutions are a bastion of gender equality and opportunity for women. It'...

I did a really fun show last night at the Shelford Feast - a fund-raising festival just outside Cambridge . While I was there I noticed pos...

I've just seen this post over at a My Private Casbah , about a woman left to die on the floor of a psychiatric hospital and Bint Alshams...

I've just seen Gordon Ramsay on his "Kitchen Nightmare's" show - promoting a vegetarian restaurant in France, putting a st...

"Good Article" and "Daily Mail" don't appear in the same sentence on the Cru-blog very often however... I met Jenni...

Money on the table please! Which will happen first? (1) The Church of England agreeing to appoint women bishops or (2) The whole instituti...

It's late and I should be working but I'm procrastinating, ambling around the Guardian website and there's a pop-up for the Guar...