Recess Monkey would like to officially welcome June Sarpong to the world of political blogging. She is part of a new website called Politics and the City and, judging by the lipstick in the logo, is either targeted at young women or married men in the Lords. In any event, it is a proactive

Theresa May will today join with TV presenter June Sarpong to launch a campaign for equal pay for women.

Have just taken a first proper look at Politics & The City the website created and newly launched by June Sarpong (best known for presenting Channel 4’s T4). In case you can’t tell it’s aimed at women, with the hope of making politics a bigger topic of discussion than perhaps it currently is amongst the

To all Women On the 9th of June 2009 there will our 2nd women’s meeting please come along between the hour of 1400-1700 in the Windsor Castle pub out side Clapham Junction Station to discuss the issues that presently are affecting all women’s member with job cuts and other issues. Rickey...

For those of you who missed it, Radio Four has just broadcast a piece about what the women who worked with think Gordon Brown think of him. Not a lot, it seems. Here are some of the quotes: Jane Kennedy "Well I think that the Labour Party is expecting us to do better. The Parliamentary Labour Party were told in the first meeting after the election in June we were promised that there was going...

Back in June, Melanie McDonagh wrote that "the Tories are desperate to regain the female vote". Today's Guardian scoop, a government memo on the need to better appeal to women, proves she's right. In places, the document reads as if it were written by a group of men to whom women are very much from Venus. They are careful to spell out the revelation that "of course women&#...

Back in June, Melanie McDonagh wrote that "the Tories are desperate to regain the female vote". Today's Guardian scoop, a government memo on the need to better appeal to women, proves she's right. In places, the document reads as if it were written by a group of men to whom women are very much from Venus. They are careful to spell out the revelation that "of course women&#...

THE by-election to find a Westminster replacement for the late Labour MP David Cairns is set to be held on 30 June, it emerged last night.

We know the date of at least one election in 2010: the locals will be on May 6h. There also has to be a general election by Thursday the third of June. It is hard to see how the government could recover from a drubbing in May to win an election in June. It is almost certain that Brown won’t want to go after May 6th. One of the last hopes Labour people cling to is that the retu...

For the first time in a general election, a constituency will be fought over by four leading candidates who are all women.