Weekly Round-Up and Open Thread

Feminism - back by popular demand

We can’t always blog about the stories in the news that catch our collective eyes, so here is this week’s open thread for discussion and our regular round-up of those we missed. They are links and blog posts that we found interesting, thought-provoking or newsworthy, rather than necessarily things we agree with.

If you have a link or comment that doesn’t fit anywhere else and would like to share it, feel free to drop it in the comments here.

And here’s a video of Sunday’s Block the Bridge, Block the Bill protest (for more information see Keep our NHS Public and UKUncut. (The cross-stitched/embroidered placard is awesome):

And also Channel 4 News:

[Image at top of post is of a sign on someone’s back, saying ‘Feminism: Back by popular demand’. Photo is by me.]