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A doctor formerly specialising in sexual health, Oliver has written widely on matters relating to sex, relationships and counselling. He is divorced and has one daughter. He is a keen skier and mountain biker. More Posts

Getting it on

At the weekend, amidst my domestic chores (including a ‘rubbish run’ to the nearby municipal tip), I happened to catch a small segment of BBC1’s Sunday Morning Live, presented by Sian Williams, which follows The Andrew Marr Show. The springboard to the discussion at hand – on the subject of [...]

July 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

Religion and faith has plenty to answer for

Writing this as a self-proclaimed atheist, though not a proselytising one, it seems to me that such is human existence that as many people as possible believing in something is a good thing. Believing in anything, I mean. In a God or indeed gods, in a common set of humanitarian principles, in the [...]

July 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

Anything that keeps you smiling

More recent generations than mine might think that there are few upsides to being a senior citizen with a fading memory. Although – speaking as someone in that category myself – I might even agree with them in principle, you have to try to keep looking at the bright side, don’t you? [...]

June 25, 2015 // 0 Comments

Confronting the past

Yesterday I popped down to visit my father – at whose gaff huge quantities of extended-family photographs and mementos are stored – to rendezvous with my daughter, who was on a mission to seek out image of herself and her brother as young kids. This was further to her aunt’s engagement of a [...]

April 13, 2015 // 0 Comments

All sweetness and light

A friend of mine’s daughter Katy runs a website called All Sweetness and Light  http://www.all-sweetness-and-life.com which broadly covers online dating.  Katy is a witty, sassy woman with a no holds barred, outrageous attitude to sex . It makes for fun reading but on a deeper level does [...]

March 17, 2015 // 0 Comments

Viewed from the sofa

Given that I’m retired, I’m probably happier than most hombres to admit that I watch far more television than is good for me. I once read somewhere that if kids spend more than four hours per day in front of the box they are likely to turn into brain-damaged dysfunctional adults with minimal [...]

February 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Theory of Everything

Whilst no film buff like Neil Rosen I do enjoy a good biopic and I recently saw The Theory of Everything, being the life of Professor Steven Hawking. At first sight it’s rather an ambitious topic for a film. Beyond it being the theory of black holes, no one really comprehends Hawking’s [...]

February 6, 2015 // 0 Comments

Thank goodness, it’s over

Yesterday two friends dropped round. One has a successful online counselling service, the other a property services business but is a significant fund raiser for charity through her sponsored running. The runner breathed a sigh of relief and I am  sure spoke for many when she said she was [...]

January 6, 2015 // 0 Comments

We’re all special cases now

According to a Radio Five Live contributor, the obesity epidemic in Britain already costs the NHS a staggering £5 billion per annum. This fact came winging into my brain in the wee hours this morning, just after I had spent yesterday reading reports of a new European Court of Justice ruling that [...]

December 19, 2014 // 0 Comments

Complicated issues

As a spin-off from my piece yesterday on the sentence given out to Oscar Pistorius in South Africa, today I venture into equally difficult and complex waters by taking as my subject the current media cause célèbre of the release from prison of convicted rapist Ched Evans and the row over whether [...]

October 23, 2014 // 0 Comments

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