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Yesterday was a very special day for me. My interview with Karl at The Dialogue Project was played to people in the forest at The Latitude Festival.  The Festival is especially important to me, as takes place in my beautiful and much-loved home county of Suffolk. I have been so very touched by countless messages [...]

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Recently, a very dear friend of mine, Olivia Mackinder, asked me on Twitter what my latest blog post would be about. I responded thoughtfully, “Femininity, Judgement and Listening.” “Quite an epic then!” She replied.  She wasn’t wrong. The truth is, there is so much going on in my life right now that I do not [...]

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This sounds like the start of a rant.  It’s not.  But I would dearly like to explain to those people* (who describe Twitter as a “total waste of time” or “a website for really self-absorbed arseholes”, but have never opened a Twitter account or if they have, spent very little time on it and expected [...]

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Please report this Facebook page with me – “Hitting Women“. I would really like to see this gone.  Thanks.

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A Minute for Madeleine

I know many of you will have watched this already today, but I feel it my duty as a parent to put it on my blog. I know that if I was ever to find myself in the horrific position that Madeleine’s parents found themselves in back on 03 May 2007, I would want every [...]

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Yesterday saw yet more media storm clouds break out over the Twitter landscape, this time involving my beloved @stephenfry. I am a huge fan of Mr Fry and have followed his “tweets” and his impossibly funny blog, for some time now. A self-confessed gadget and internet lover, he is one of the bigger “celebrities” behind [...]

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There was a “lady” in the loosest terms Whose views spread like contagious germs Her name was Jan Now without a fan She wished she’d swallowed her can of worms With tripe destined for the gutter She caused many an angry splutter Now paper for the bog Her next shit a hedgehog Her hateful words [...]

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It’s Follow Friday on Twitter and during today’s Tweetathon I landed upon Derren Brown’s tweet regarding Jan Moir’s article for the Daily Mail about the tragic death of Stephen Gately. To say I felt a little sick would be an understatement. After a few hours spent breathing in the crisp October air during a lakeside [...]

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