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Sep 22

Don't know how she does it?

I Don't Know How She Does It, the film starring Sarah Jessica Parker in which a woman struggles to balance motherhood with a high-flying career, has reignited the 'can women have it all?' debate. Noticeably lacking from many discussions, though, is the question of where the fathers are...

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Aug 24

Love or Money?

Do women marry for love or money, and are they right to do so? The Chinese Supreme Court has decided that women have rejected the sentimental notion that they should marry for love, instead opting for rich men, however repulsive they may be. Arguing that a third of marriages end in divorce because...

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Aug 19

Exams are easier - So what?

Yesterday, 18 year olds across the country collected their A-Level results to a backdrop of newspaper articles lamenting how easy the exams have become. Apparently the whole system is worthless and everyone thinks they're a genius because they're all getting a string of top grades. Even if...

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Jun 16

Is chivalry sexist?

Have you ever addressed a group of men and women as 'guys', even though this is reinforcing the notion that men are more important than women? Shame on you. Researchers from the Society for the Psychology of Women, based in Washington DC, have called chivalry 'benevolent sexism',...

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Jun 02

Prison: Not for girls

Feeling a bit criminal, but don't want a prison sentence? Better make sure you're a mother. Alice Thomson has argued in The Times that women who commit non-violent crimes shouldn't be imprisoned, as it's not fair on their children. Apparently it's no big deal if fathers are sent...

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May 18

Date me, rape me

You know how when a woman doesn't want to have sex at the end of a date, what she really wants is a nice bit of rape? What a relief Ken Clarke thinks so too. The Justice Secretary is facing calls to resign after he questioned whether date rape was actually rape. Speaking on Radio Five today, he...

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May 04

Osama, Obama and the Surrender Monkeys

If you're easily offended by surreal insults, look away now, for Europeans have been branded 'cheese-eating surrender monkeys' by a journalist who claims to speak for many Americans but who probably just wanted to make it into the Daily Mail. According to Tony Metcalfe, the British...

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May 03

AV: Wrestling in Leotards

The battle over the Alternative Vote has reached whole new levels of bitchiness and in-fighting amongst the coalition government. I always imagine it's like those American wrestling competitions, with oversized bearded men in leotards staging drop-kicks to make the audience believe they hate...

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Apr 27

Sex and Sexism

I'm not a big fan of women who have sex with married men and then cry about it on daytime TV, but Baroness Deech's view that the women are solely to blame for super-injunctions is alarmingly sexist. “In many of the cases of gagging orders we read about, women have sold their favours...

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Nov 08

What price for free school?

A few weeks ago, I interviewed Toby Young, author of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, naked poser on the internet (google it - I don't want to spoil the surprise) and founder of the West London Free School, which is generally loathed by teaching unions and Labour MPs. You can...

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