Forgetting Churchill to Concentrate on Miller
Firstly, thank you to everyone who offered so much positive comments via Facebook, Twitter and email regarding my most recent post about the shocking increase in male suicide rates. It is probably the most response I have had to a blog in the eight years I have been writing them. It has also gained me more readership after I suffered a dent in my confidence last week when I received a couple of anonymous, semi-sinister emails regarding the ...
The Depressed Men of Status Symbol Land
When it became apparent last week that former footballer, PFA chairman and TV pundit, Clark Carlisle, had stepped out front of a lorry in a suicide attempt, it came as little surprise because rumours had been circulating about his mental health for some time. What I found more startling is that the biggest killer in men under 50, is suicide. There were over 4,000 suicides last year, outdoing cancer, coronary disease and accidents on the ...
Employment Rights and the Abuse of Small Employers
Being someone with self-confessed socialist values, I have always supported employment rights of the worker against overzealous paymasters and there was without doubt, a time in the days of heavy industrial output, when workers required protection with regards to working conditions, pay and sickness in particular. However, times have changed and a good 50 per cent (perhaps more than that) of my peers have, because of major changes in the ...
War Porn and the Magna Carta
What a crazy few weeks it has been on the the television, with programmes featuring all the glory of war, the holocaust, Churchill and the Magna Carta. As interesting as they are, I often find that these programmes about modern history seem to have a somewhat elitist bias to them, possibly because the majority of the arts and media industry is dominated by the offspring of the ruling classes. Churchill for instance, has been documented as ...
Oh God No…Not the End of Page 3?
Apparently, The Sun went down on page three girls yesterday (good pun there, chortle, chortle) as women exposed their breasts for the last time in the comic that is, ironically, printed by a company with a grandiose title (News International) and is owned by the perennially lovable Rupert Murdoch. I don't really know much about The Sun, as it was effectively banned in our house when I was a boy, so the nearest I got to anything erotic via the ...