I struggle with my privilege, mostly because I know that I’ve got bucketfuls of it. I’m western, white, straight, middle-class, able-bodied, and educated. The only area I don’t have privilege in is my gender (although I am cisgendered). But I’m not doing too badly, overall. I’m not ashamed of my privilege, but I am conscious [...]

Good heavens! I just discovered I have not updated this since long before Shakespeare wast a boy. You would not believe the amount of people that are totally stalking me. I prostrate myself in sorrow and beg thy forgiveness. I am absolutely consumed with setting fire to people wearing Crocs, planning my wedding, and just generally [...]

The Notes of Recent: Woman who presents BBLB. Is it really possible to be that annoying? Yes. Yes it is. It’ll say on my gravestone: She might not start anything at all until midday, but then she really goes. Thought the [relatively] new laptop was struggling there and getting disk-spinny. Realised they were drilling next door. Very same [...]

The Notes of Recent: Hot, sweaty weather. Maybe rain. Maybe just cloud. Could do with nap. Traffic warden waits patiently for driver to return during five minute grace period. Machine is ready, thumb is poised above ‘enter’. Boy on bike speeding down payment. Nearly knocks me and another over. I shout ‘ARGH’ and glance back to see if [...]

17:40 Posh eight-year old in a car: ‘I need to get out of this car right now. RIGHT NOW’. If it wasn’t a criminal offence, I’d smack him. 18:33 Old lady next door cutting her grass. Tells me every time she sees me that she’s nearly blind. Wonder she never cuts the lawnmover cord. 19:15 Head sore. [...]

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I need help with Word. My font size in my thesis Word document is 12pt (as per regulations), and the size of my footnotes is 10pt. I use styles and formatting for all my sizes etc. and I never change anything by using the icons on the menu bars because I know that just messes everything [...]

I watched Made in Britain last week. I put the DVD in one evening when I was bored and wanted to pass a hour or two before bed. I didn’t realise that it would be quite like it was, and I certainly wasn’t prepared for the intensity I experienced. Tim Roth’s performance was the best [...]

Barack Obama has declared himself “the Democratic nominee for president of the United States”. He was speaking to a cheering crowd on the last day of the primary season, as projections showed he had earned enough delegates to clinch the nomination. Of the states that voted, Montana was won by Mr Obama and South Dakota by his [...]

Watch this. If you want a raw and real glimpse of racism in England, watch this. Monday 02 June - 9:00pm - 10:55pm - Film4 The sixth feature from British film-maker Shane Meadows (Dead Man’s Shoes, TwentyFourSeven) offers a semi-autobiographical portrait of skinheads in the 1980s. Set in a bleak (and unnamed) northern town just after the [...]