Sunday Times article about working women by India Knight.........

[ssd]

Did you read it and if you did what did you think?

FWIW I agree with her, will probably be stoned now.

[LadySherlockofLGJ]

Link please............

[Mud]

i liked it

[mummytosteven]

Read it. Didn't agree with it. I remember Paula Yates being similarly sanctimonious about childcare.

[ssd]

sorry I read it in the review section, don't know how to find it to do a link.

sorry!!

[tamum]

I wish she'd change the record. I don't actually agree with her, but they are valid views. Once is enough though, and this is about her fifth column in the last six months bleating on about the same stuff.

[Mud]

www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2092-1974682,00.html

[codnotamod]

i loved it
but am too scared to say

[ssd]

if you're the real cod your not scared of anything!!

[LadySherlockofLGJ]

Try this.

[Tinker]

Not read it but agree with tamum. Agree with anyone who slags off India Knight

[ssd]

why don't you like India Knight??

[tribpot]

Ah, this was being discussed in my office today. I was told "apparently you shouldn't be here" (to which I would have responded "I agree" except I was too busy getting on with my work in order to come home to my family!).

As ever the fact that childcare is a parental issue is neatly side-stepped in favour of having a go at women - one week it'll be 'working' mothers (we all work, ladies), one week it'll be 'non-working mothers'. India Knight takes the fact that one female designer has chosen to step down to spend more time with her family and extrapolated that to mean all women are unable to cope with the pressures of work, family and home. Even though we all do it in our different ways every single day of every single year. Some of us decide to have one full-time parent at home (in my case my dh), some choose from a range of other options.

Only that doesn't sound exciting as news, does it?! Cos news it is not. I barely rate this as opinion, it's just a meaningless "take one fact and make it mean 50 other things" piece of crappy journalism.

[TheDullWitch]

Like Phoebe Philo would send her child to a crappy 10 hour a day nursery! She d have a lovely expensive nanny in her own home. Her child wouldn t have raised cortisol levels or whatever. Unfair for someone like I Knight, who has job where she can work from home and earn ££££, should judge those who need cheap childcare in order to pay the mortgage.

Rumours that PP quit because Chloe not happy with her collections. "spending more time with family" most common euphemism for "i m about to be sacked" or at any rate "i m fed up with my job".

[codnotamod]

wotcha dullard

[codnotamod]

ia m in love with caitlin moran

wel not really but any ref by her of wolverhapton makes me pmsl

i make a habit of readign her int he bath jsut in case

[TheDullWitch]

How s 2006 for you, codly?

[codnotamod]

it is fruaght with wingeing potty trainers ( see thread)

not really we haev been having a hoot otn eh baby modeliign thread

[tamum]

Me too cod, she's just brilliant. So funny, so astute and original in a nicely mad kind of way.

[codnotamod]

i linketh

[codnotamod]

www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,170-1973762,00.html

[Enid]

surely phoebe philo quit cos her new collection is shite?

[codnotamod]

The idea of Christianity ? a religion which underpins the whole of Western civilisation, apart from in Wolverhampton, where we primarily served Pan ? being defended not by the Pope, but some small-time cleric staring anxiously into his fusilli, is truly cinematic in its scope. I see Father Righi being played by a sad-eyed Oscar-winner, like Adrien Brody, and Signor Cascioli by someone used to battling a system against enormous odds: Bruce Willis, maybe, in a vest.

[Enid]

whoops

I wasn't the first to mention that

[codnotamod]

no

you werent