Archive - Letters from Suzanne

October 2024

I helped set up the Women's Equality Party. What a waste of time that was.

As I was involved in the setting up of the Women’s Equality Party in 2015, one might think that like one of its founders, Sandi Toksvig , that I was…

Oct 27 •

Gisèle Pélicot. Thank you.

Gisèle Pélicot.

Oct 24 •

Deborah Orr was unflinchingly true to herself. Who among us can say that?

It’s five years since one of my closest friends died.

Oct 21 •

Going on holiday by mistake ,The Strangest Gig Ever and Angela Rayner. Kind of.

Morning campers!

Oct 17 •

All Caught Up. Millie Jackson

To cheer us up on a Friday , one of my favourite albums.

Oct 4 •

September 2024

My Bereavement Counsellor Was Too Small

I promised myself that I would write you a lighter piece this week so here is a little story.

Sep 21 •

Rape is a War Crime . The case of Dominique Pélicot

Rape has always been used as a tactic of war.

Sep 8 •

Grenfell. As political as it gets.

Listening to the inquiry all these years later , after this long wait for justice I looked back at what I wrote a week after the fire.

Sep 4 •

Use your voice. We are not in Afghanistan.

There is a lot of writing on Substack and elsewhere about “finding your voice”. Some of it is good, but a lot of it is simply blandly motivational…

Sep 1 •

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