A tip of the hat to Melissa Kite, a journalist, for her honest account of interactions between politicians and female journalists when she worked in Westminster. An extract:
Look, it was a long time ago and I’m practically an old lady now, in media years. I’ve no need to keep up the pretence that I was a blameless naïf in my 20s and 30s when I was an ambitious young lobby hack. I want to make my confession. I want to explain why I did it.
I took advantage of men to get ahead, and because I enjoyed it. And yes, Michael Fallon was one of them.
He and I used to book our party conference dinners months in advance. I looked forward to them as a highlight because I knew the gossip would be flowing as freely as the wine. I would book the best place in town, turn up in a smart outfit and grab hold of Mr Fallon on arrival, covering him in mwah mwahs…
Look, what I’m saying is, women are not always passive victims. I certainly wasn’t. I enjoyed the charged atmosphere of politics. I thrived on it as well as the men did; more than some of them maybe.
Justice for Men & Boys 
It takes two to tango,
if someone’s selling then someone’s buying.
I wonder how much media attention this piece of common sense will get.
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Isn’t amazing that this should even need to be said, but it really really does. I do wonder if the almost comical “sex scandal with no sex” has to do with internal factions in Labour and picked up settling scores in Conservatives with half an eye to maintaining the Legal “quotas” in political parties,which looks a nonsense now so many have female leaders, even in the supposedly “backward” NI. The women in the “Westminster Village” simply cannot be that fragile.
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