Women’s rights campaigners have demanded that UK newspapers be put under scrutiny. They claim that mainstream newspapers such as The Sun objectify women. This is just one of the papers which features a topless “Page 3″ model. While living in the UK I found it shocking to find half-naked women in a mainstream newspaper which ...
Sure, the UK may have the Queen as the head of state, a woman whose job description also includes Defender of the Faith. The faith in question is the Church of England but despite this, I think the UK does a pretty good job of separating church and state. Indeed, our Deputy Prime Minister may ...
It seems that there is a growing number of educated British Muslim women who are unmarriageable and left to spinsterhood. Educated British Muslim women are being passed over for marriage in favour of women with more traditional values from the family’s home country. Muslim women in the UK whose families hail from the Indian sub-continent ...
A priest with pixellated face and the Virgin Mary staring aghast at a positive pregnancy test. Is this art imitating life, or is it offensive sensationalism? Banksy’s Cardinal Sin sits amongst 17th Century religious art in Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery. His face is sawn off and replaced with small, square bathroom tiles, creating a pixellated ...
Honour killings — two words that should not be used in the same sentence. And yet the practice of “cleansing” a family from the dishonour of a woman is not only still carried out, it is reportedly on the rise. Honour killings are an ancient tradition of controlling a woman’s actions — particularly her sexuality. ...
“Jingle pills!” was the headline that woke me out of my stupor after a 10-hour overnight flight from the other end of the world. “Good grief, what’s this,” I thought to myself as I picked up the paper and jumped on a train home. Turns out that Life, a rather unimaginatively named British pro-life group, ...
Same-sex civil partnership ceremonies will be now be allowed to take place in any church in England and Wales, so long as the church agrees and is happy to do it. Gay marriage is still illegal in the UK, and until now same-sex partnership ceremonies have been purely secular, civil occasions. Whilst it seems very ...
Not all gay men are (anal) sex fiends. If you ask any Tom, Dick or Harry what they think gay men do in bed, the reply will probably involve an asshole, but a new study from Indiana University and George Mason University is set to challenge this widespread misconception. Apparently, anal sex is the least ...
Canadians need a wake up call — The Globe and Mail announced that binge drinking appears to be on the rise. I was shocked. I was so shocked I almost dropped my gin and tonic. This report informs us that binge drinking is linked to an increase in unsafe sex, violence and injuries. I hope ...
It may have taken 58 years, but good old Lizzy finally made her point. After centuries of sexism, British Prime Minister David Cameron has decided that the rule that the first born son should inherit the throne needs to be revamped, in favour of a merit-based system and that first born daughters may also be ...
Usually getting fired is a bad thing. But, somehow, this woman is happy about it. Can you imagine...
My attention was drawn this week to an article on the resurgence of the market for men’s underwear. It...
Meh, the night bus. It isn’t ideal, but with the price of trains nowadays and the hellish standing-up-from-Edinburgh-to-Manchester situation...
Ladies, learn to know the signs of ovulation! So many women have no idea and so many headaches and...
Remember that time when I was with my friends and I saw you playing pool with your friends and...
Dear Madame X, My girl is hot but every single time we get into a fight she is all...
My first encounter with Kitchen, Banana Yoshimoto’s 1988 novel (translated into English in 1993 by Megan Backus) was in...
A slut is a person of any gender who has the courage to lead life according to the radical...
