Schools were once places where girls in drab A-line skirts could concentrate on other things than looking perfect. Not any more. We now live in a world “where eight-year-olds worry about their weight, 11-year-olds feel they need to pluck their eyebrows” and teenage schoolgirls are expected to be “selfie-ready” at all times. And attempts to …
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A friend of ours made the following comments in an email, and I want to pass them on (having secured his agreement) because they represent a point of view I haven’t heard expressed in the media (or which I have missed if it has been): “Multinational, multilingual unions do not last forever. Although the use …
“There is simply no question where Mike Pence (Trump’s running mate. Ed.) stands when it comes to women’s health and rights. “As Indiana governor, he signed into law anti-LGBTQ legislation and some of the most invasive and extreme abortion restrictions in the country. He forced the local Scott County Planned Parenthood health center to shut …
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“Martyrdom… the only way in which a man can become famous without ability”. (George Bernard Shaw, quoted in The Times)
130 million people round the world have hepatitis C. The disease is best treated by a direct-acting antiviral drug called sofosbuvir, sold by a company called Gilead. Gilead introduced this drug onto the US market at the astonishing price of $84,000 for 12 weeks course of treatment. Since the drug has to be used in …
