This blog was inspired by an eight hour long lecture that I attended yesterday – eight hours straight were delivered by the same lecturer, in the same room, with the same people.  Believe it or not, throughout the whole lecture, none of the students...

Surprising the one you love is hard....very hard. Usually, if they know you well enough and you're not an Oscar or Grammy Award winner they can tell when you're fibbing and when you're nervous. They can even tell when you're uncomfortable and...

Last Sunday this paper ran a story about a forty year old man who for some reason or other hasn’t worked in 18 years. Whether he doesn’t work because of physical or mental health reasons is unclear, but he has since then fathered five children - the...

By now most of you know that I don't believe that social media privacy exists. I believe that no matter what precautions you take, ultimately whatever you put on Facebook or any other social network is public and leaves a trail. This is why I do...

Lucky me, this week was all about rape and sex - two diametrically opposed, but highly related bodily acts. It all started with the court dismissing a woman's gang rape claim and this paper being first to publish it. As soon as the verdict went...

At the moment, London buses are going around sporting an advert with the words ‘Some people are gay. Get Over It.’   The people behind this campaign are lobbying for gay marriage and more equal rights, but as liberating as this is, in the same...

If you're one of those who drag their behind to the gym six times a week, please stop reading now. If you can run up a hill singing, or run the marathon backwards this won't impress you either, and I won't stand the idea of your eyes rolling into...

It all started with the news story about hunters and, our now infamous Spring Hunting Season. Apart from making me feel sick to my stomach, the news flung me down memory lane and landed me with a Rubik’s Cube in hand. Sadly, some members of my...

Can anyone of you reading this blog right now, afford to take four weeks off? No? Tough cookies! It's probably because you're in the wrong business. You see, our politicians (you know those who are paid out of our taxes) can. Unbelievably, or...

A 2007 study, published in the journal - Sex Roles - found that couples who hold feminist views have a better time between the sheets. Blowing the top off the usual stereotypes that portray feminists as men-haters, the study shows that women who...