SOLOMON HUGHES recommends Sunjeev Sahota’s recent novel set in a trade union election campaign for its fresh approach to what unites and divides workers, but wishes the union backdrop was truer to life
The woman who walked Wales
LYNNE WALSH introduces us to Ursula Martin, who, on being diagnosed with ovarian cancer at 32, decided to set off on a 3,700-mile trek, around her beloved Wales
THE list of things that conspire to make me an incipient Grumpy Old Woman grows longer, especially around March 8.
The insistence on “celebrating,” for one. We don’t have equal pay! Cause for complaint, rather than celebration, I think.
And another thing, people who “battle” illness, especially cancer. They’re always brave, they’re always fighters, they “overcome” or they “lose the fight.”
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