Childless women. It’s none of our business. The news that Nicola Sturgeon had a miscarriage when she was Depute First Minister was one of the most read stories on the BBC website on Sunday. It earned headlines on radio news and was shared countless times on social media. There were those who were cynical about… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Nicola Sturgeon
Baby boxes for all won’t eradicate childhood poverty
Baby boxes for all won’t eradicate childhood poverty Three years ago I wrote about the Finnish healthcare service, which was celebrating 75 years of ‘baby boxes’ – a cardboard box given to the every expectant mother. The boxes contain clothes, toiletries and nappies – everything a new-born needs to get a good start in life…. Read more »
Scotland deserves more from the BBC. Plus cocktail trainers. Really?
What can you buy for £2.30 these days? A cappuccino perhaps, but you wouldn’t be able to afford a muffin to go with it. Or you might just about stretch to a supermarket sandwich for lunch. If you were looking for entertainment you’d be lucky to get a third of a cinema ticket. But what… Read more »
Happy Birthday Twitter, and underwhelmed, again!
Happy Birthday Twitter – the social media site turned nine years old this week. Let me put that into context; 2006 was the year that Gnarles Barkley’s ‘Crazy’ seemed to be at number 1 all summer, and the year Daniel Craig made his debut as Bond in Casino Royale. It took me a while to… Read more »
Proud of Nicola Sturgeon, and a peek at Inverness Campus
Last Wednesday was a momentous day for women and for Scotland when Nicola Sturgeon became the first female First Minister of our proud nation. And that milestone for women was enhanced even further two days later when Sturgeon’s first cabinet was announced. Where the Westminster Government, in spite of a concerted effort to balance the… Read more »