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Some things don’t feel fair

Many years ago – no, make that many decades ago – I used to be a lawyer before I moved on to other things. As a result, although I retain a working understanding of the basic principles involved in areas of the law that I formerly practised in, I am more than prepared to declare upfront that my [...]

June 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

Standing up to be counted

Yesterday afternoon I watched on television as Serena Williams, who is going to be 35 in September, lost 5-7, 4-6 to first-time Major winner Garbine Muguruza (formerly of Venezuela, now of Spain) in the final of the women’s singles at the French Open. Serena therefore remains on a career record [...]

June 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

Battening down the hatches

During the course of the last seven days there have been two media stories that have highlighted the gulf that exists between men and women. Firstly, there has been the news that those campaigning on both sides of the EU Referendum debate are being urged to address their ‘women’ problem [...]

May 31, 2016 // 0 Comments

Reaching the end of the road

Yesterday I went to the south coast to join a lunch at which my aged father was present. During the ten days since I had last seen him he had an ‘incident’ in which, in seeking to remove his car from a car park, he drove quite hard into another car by somehow getting confused and accidentally [...]

May 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

Tour de Lyon

After a hard half-day’s travelling (leaving our hotel in Lyon at an eye-watering 0445 hours) I reached home yesterday and ‘flopped’ – pulling up the drawbridge, watching a bit of the Barcelona Formula One Grand Prix before retiring to my pit for a two-hour snooze. Some that sports fans [...]

May 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

Once more unto the breach

This is the Big One – at precisely 0630 hours this morning a two-man SOE unit [you’ll have to look it up] will be picked up and driven to the City airport in London to be flown into enemy-occupied France. Their do-or-die mission will be to provide support to the formerly-mighty Quins match day [...]

May 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

It depends how you define equality

From our growing ‘stuck record’ department, I fear. On the subjects of tennis, equal pay, political correctness and similar, here comes another report upon research suggesting that elite female tennis players are some of the luckiest sports-people alive in terms of ‘value for [...]

April 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

Some call it progress

In this era of supposed gender equality it sometimes seems as if there’s been little progress in human relationships and ‘the battle of the sexes’. Here’s a link to an article by Barbara Ellen that appears today upon the website of – THE GUARDIAN Sometimes we like to kid ourselves that [...]

April 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

Everyone’s at it (“oh no they’re not!”)

It seems close to a truism to state that every generation lives within the prevailing sexual laws, morals and social niceties of its own era. Take Britain for example – and my apologies for the imminent sweeping generalisations – King Henry VIII plainly ‘put it about a bit’. In the [...]

April 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

When push comes to shove …

Sometimes in life – and in the world’s press or social media – it becomes a case of ‘You couldn’t make it up’. Over the past fortnight I’ve noticed stories on the classier newspaper websites about the prospect that, in the not too far off future, not only will women be able to [...]

April 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

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