Exactly. Men are agents. Women are categories.

Love her. But "grandmotherly" ? "A committed activist just got booted .... " "A citizen just got..." "A woman just..." "A principled woman challenged an ageing narcissist...." "A woman who looks like a woman challenges lies..." .... Etc.

Who will speak for me when I can no longer speak for myself? So enjoyed talking to David Runciman about the politics of old age and Beauvoir's astonishingly prescient 1970 book on Old Age - La Vieillesse.

Really fascinating discussion on ageing 👇

Who will speak for me when I can no longer speak for myself? So enjoyed talking to David Runciman about the politics of old age and Beauvoir's astonishingly prescient 1970 book on Old Age - La Vieillesse.

I would like women to have whatever colour hair they'd like. I would also like accurate data on: 50+ female unemployment rates; number of 65+ single women on/below poverty line; percentage of 50+ women unpaid carers; impact of austerity on all the above. And for that data to be headline news.

Thank you!

Best Machiavelli biography recommendations anyone?

Restore saying the "sublime" part of ideology out loud in its Camden election "campaign": vote for us with the reassurance that there's no way we could actually win.

My boy started at TCD today (IP Msc), and I couldn't help think how proud his Brandywell/Bogside great nan would have been. Bursting proud - and probably very surprised!

Coming soon in our Mid-Century OUP series. How beautiful is this cover?

I have done the mandatory on-line courses that were in my in-box. Forgive me for taking so long. They were.... nothing like plums.

Uhm, gently: I'm not sure yet another mandatory on-line training course eating up valuable time and emotional energy is the answer to increasing levels of stress experienced by HE colleagues....even if the course is on... stress.

This was such - in the Arendtian sense - FUN.