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Surveys may come and go

We’re at the back end of what is known as the media ‘silly season’, but there still seems to be some life yet in the dying embers. Hot on the heels of this week’s revelations that bacon, sausages – and all the other foods that for three decades and more have been blamed for causing the [...]

August 12, 2015 // 0 Comments

It never gets any easier

I was talking with my cousin yesterday about our surviving parents, who by chance happen to live quite close to one another – her mother is in her ninety-third year and my father approaching his 90th birthday. Both high-achievers in their heyday, they are still relatively ‘on the ball’ and [...]

July 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

Making the world go around

Anyone who’s reached the age of twelve or thirteen is capable of appreciating that human relationships – opposite sex or same-sex – are infinitely complex. They can be subtle – or decidedly unsubtle. I’m talking about all relationships here, not merely about [...]

June 24, 2015 // 0 Comments

Well, it’s not rocket science!

Today the media is reporting that, whilst a woman’s health is relatively unaffected by whether she is single, together in a relationship or married, that of a man is actually improved by getting married. (Yes, some might argue, a man’s chances of suffering strained muscles or back [...]

June 12, 2015 // 0 Comments

Radio 5 sport- too PC?

There is much sport to savour this weekend with two showpiece events: the Derby and Champions League Final. John Pargiter will be watching the golf at Memorial where the Tiger Woods game is now restored if not match winning. Andy Murray is making a fist of it against the invincible Djorkovic and [...]

June 6, 2015 // 1 Comment

They cannot both be right

Any woman who has ever had a baby has either feared or suspected they have experienced the syndrome of their brain turning to mush during the process. I’ve personally attended innumerable female-only coffee mornings, lunches and ‘quick drinks after work’ that have consisted largely of [...]

May 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

A dissenting voice

I happened to watch The One Show on BBC1 last night, on which the guest of the day was broadcaster Clare Balding who was there to plug the Women’s Boat Race, which she has deliberately departed Channel Four Racing to present, along with its male counterpart, today. Call me old-fashioned [how many [...]

April 10, 2015 // 0 Comments

Women and danger

In terms of female equality, now decades beyond the clichés of John Gray’s Women Are From Venus, Men Are From Mars, in recent times there have been media discussions of the effects of women’s menstrual cycles upon sporting performance and the menopause upon women’s working [...]

March 2, 2015 // 0 Comments

Baroness Pratt of Writtle

Baroness Pratt of Writtle passed away this month. I met her only the once but I recall this vividly. At the time, it would have been 20 years ago, I was a Visitng Professor of Middlesex Unversity and on their management board. I was invited to a dinner there and sat opposite the chancellor Baroness [...]

February 27, 2015 // 0 Comments

Worth a read

Having acknowledged that anyone begins a piece with the words ‘Don’t get me wrong, …’ runs the risk of falling foul of the quotation from Shakespeare’s Hamlet ‘The lady doth protest too much, methinks …’ and/or the natural cynicism that accompanies [...]

January 31, 2015 // 0 Comments

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