Tweet I was doing some research last night and quite by chance I stumbled upon the campaign ‘STFU parents’, which apparently has been gaining momentum in the US for quite a while now and…
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Tweet During the four years I’ve been blogging I’ve often heard the term ‘blogging royalty’ bandied about. It really is the most nonsensical, meaningless phrase. In Hollywood the term ‘royalty’ is used to describe…
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Tweet There’s a saying among journalists: ‘honour amongst thieves.’ It’s a sort of unwritten rule that journalists support each other, which is why you’ll often find journalists defending rivals (unless they’ve done something really indefensible).…
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Tweet An increasing number of mums are taking out payday loans to pay for Christmas, resulting in colossal debt problems which they can’t get out of and incredible emotional stress. What a desperate situation.…
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Tweet This week I was surprised to see a rather nasty anonymous comment on a blog post. Quite why the person felt the need to leave it, and why they didn’t put their name to…
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Tweet Last week I was a bit taken aback when a couple of people on Twitter told me they were surprised at a blog post I’d written. The implication was that it wasn’t the…
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Tweet One of the best things about belonging to a blogging community is that you quickly discover just how many great blogs there are out there. Hundreds, in fact. So when I realised it was…