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Why 'part-timer' isn't an insult 19 Apr 2012 | 12:29 am
IT's one of those jolly office jokes that, for some of us, never quite manages to be funny: yelling 'part-timer!' at anyone leaving before midnight/taking a holiday/nipping out of the office for five ...
beauty and the brain 2 Mar 2012 | 02:28 am
I HOPE it isn't true, I really do. And there are reasons to suspect it might not be entirely true - or not irreversibly true - that, as this story today claims, nearly half of young women would rather...
sons and daughters 30 Jan 2012 | 11:00 am
"I felt they were both drowning, but I could only save one." That line is from a rather haunting piece last weekend by the Times writer Janice Turner, describing her feelings about coping with both h...
should childcare be tax-deductible? 23 Jan 2012 | 11:51 am
HIGHLIGHTER pens! Architects' fees! Room service dinners on overnight trips! (Bear with me: this gets more interesting). Bank overdraft charges! Fax running costs! (But not, strictly not, fax machines...
the work-workless balance 20 Jan 2012 | 07:34 am
WHAT happens to the idea of work-life balance, when it's too little work and not too much that's the problem? After a week in which unemployment has hit 2.68 million with scary talk of three million b...
the third shift 14 Jan 2012 | 10:38 am
“People always ask me how long it takes to do my hair. I don’t know, I’m never there.” There are many good reasons to like Dolly Parton, but that quote sums up most of them. There's something wickedl...
on ambition 10 Jan 2012 | 10:22 am
WHAT happens to ambition, when you have children? I've spent the weekend pondering this one, preparing to debate it on the radio with the formidable FT columnist Heather McGregor, author of a new book...
the dangers of 'don't ask, don't tell' 11 Nov 2011 | 11:05 am
IT's her greatest strength, but perhaps her greatest weakness. What makes the Conservative MP Louise Mensch so unusual is her apparent belief that the rules of politics somehow don't apply to her. She...
what I'm reading (out loud) 10 Oct 2011 | 09:04 am
ONE of the reasons I don't read as much as I used to, as I said in yesterday's post, is that having kids doesn't exactly leave you with hours on end to curl up with a book. But actually that wasn't st...
what I'm reading 10 Oct 2011 | 07:35 am
THIS was meant to be a blog about what I currently want to read, for National Book Week - if I'd finished writing it before National Book Week ended. Ah well. I used to be a voracious reader once, but...
