What excuses are there not to take a trip to your local polling station today? I mean, what good excuses? One of my favourite bloggers, Penny Red, puts it very well: “…if you don’t get out there and tick whatever box you need to tick, right now if...

Firstly: insurance companies – grrrrrr! 17 working days after my claim was accepted and I am still the one calling them. Every day. As soon as this claim is sorted out I will be waving Music Guard byebye and heading to Hiscox, highly recommended by a director...

It’s been a pretty bad week, all in all, kicking off with being fired from my shiny new session job (more on that shortly) and ending last night with my house being burgled while I was out performing at LDNtwestival – thank you Twitter buddies for watching me play, Twitpiccing...

No, not Peaches Geldof – Peaches. She’s creative, silly and serious, the music is always fabulous, the visuals are stunning, she often uses female musicians on tour (Ms P, feel free to get in touch whenever, okay?), she directs many of her own videos and she really really doesn’t care what...

How did I miss this when it came out? I was chatting to a fellow feminist at a party the other day and we got on to the subject of certain pop lyrics – this is a wonderful reinterpretation of a particularly vile song we discussed, big thanks to...

On Saturday I attended my first protest march: Million Women Rise. I was nervous about going not because I doubted my commitment to the cause – to end male violence against women – but because I have had so many negative experiences of women in the past. It dates back...

With a little help from Margaret Cho: Brilliant, just brilliant, and the immense cheering at the end makes me feel all shivery. There’s a nice short review of the show here as...