The demonstration on February 15, 2003 was the largest protest march in British history, but failed to stop the invasion of Iraq.  A reflection on how the protest, and the war, shaped a decade of politics and culture.

The two years since austerity began have taken their toll on domestic violence provisions, in a fracturing that cuts across institutions, sectors and lives in the UK

We are making a mistake, a very big mistake if we look at what we call the Arab Awakening only by looking at the whole dynamics in political and not in economic terms.

The publication of topless photos of the Duchess of Cambridge, and the backlash it evoked, reveal an uneasy and gendered understanding of privacy in British, French and other countries' media, that the oldest tactics are still deployed to humiliate women, and how life in the public sphere is filtered through Berlusconi lenses.

Recent events in Britain, America and Australia have revealed a fear of the word ‘vagina’ in public discourse, in tune with the shaming and controlling of women’s bodies by the US right.  What does this reveal about the alignment of capitalist commodification of sexuality and conservative misogyny, and how are the feminist responses to this climate changing the tone of feminism?

The 2012 London Olympics have been heralded as the best Olympics yet for women, although gender-inequalities remain, from sexist media commentary and gender-based bullying to less sponsorship and media coverage for female athletes than male athletes. Here, a gender score-card of the winners and losers so far.