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Entries by M.R. Hall from 05/2012

Women Are Their Own Worst Critics

| Posted 05.25.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Women, Work Life Balance, UK Entertainment, Lifestyle, Work/Life, Children, Motherhood, Uktv, Parenting, UK Culture, UK Lifestyle News

Can women's working lives be made any easier? Should they be? Perhaps these are the wrong questions. Getting a job doesn't seem to be the problem; the issue is the emotional juggling act women have to perform. We men remain largely passive observers to this dilemma, wanting to help but often not knowing how.

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Fred West Didn't Win a BAFTA by Proxy

| Posted 05.28.2012 | UK Entertainment
Read More: BAFTAs 2012, Dominic West, Bafta, Emily Watson, Uktv, UK Entertainment, Bbc, Itv, Drama, TV Drama, Itv-Bbc, Appropriate Adult, UK Entertainment News

Appropriate Adult did not glorify West, nor did it even try to humanise him; it just did a very good job of presenting him as he must have appeared to Janet Leach in real life: a very ordinary, plausible man who slowly revealed his horrifying secrets.

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Extradition Laws Are an Ass

| Posted 05.30.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Supreme Court, Julian Assange, European Court of Human Rights, Extradition Treaty, Gary McKinnon, Extradition, UK Politics News

Whether or not Julian Assange is guilty of any offence, the manner of his likely extradition to Sweden is a cause for sadness, and a symptom of deep problems in our increasingly unaccountable and internationalised legal system.

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