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Time – and coming to terms with it

Yesterday the media was running a story about the results of a survey commissioned by housing finance specialist Homewise. Apart from a worrying general conclusion that over 10% of participant Over-60 retirees were dissatisfied with their lives, financial worries and/or ‘a sense of not having [...]

July 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

Call me old-fashioned …

It is a fact of this life that, as one gets older, the frequency of being teased (or ribbed) by others – whether family or friends – about one’s characteristics, habits, traits or attitudes tends to increase. I suspect that in part it’s all done in affection – and indeed that, as [...]

July 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

Hold on a minute, ladies!

Here’s another blast on the trumpet against ‘the monstruous [sic] regiment of women’ [origin, out of copyright by now, John Knox 1558]. At the risk of outing myself as am antediluvian male misogynist stuck in the 1950s, I couldn’t help noticing overnight two examples in the media that [...]

June 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

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

Some may not like it up ’em (at least at this time of the morning)

Yesterday my schedule had been built in advance around the latest Prime Minister’s Question Time shown live from the House of Commons on BBC2 as part of the Daily Politics programme hosted by Andrew Neil. What I hadn’t banked upon was the fact that David Cameron wasn’t going to be there – [...]

May 26, 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

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