Writing in the Financial Times, Lucy Kellaway ponders on whether there’s any reason that people who have good marriages should have good relationships in the office. (Let’s keep the marriage counsellors out of the office). She reasons that people behave are very differently at home and at work, with men often being pussies at home [...]
This from a Norwich art gallery:
Brits tend to look down on the US for allowing fundamentalist fervour to drive politics. But Britain would do well to look at the rise of the tub-thumpers at home. Check out the plans for a Christian theme park in Lancashire, modeled, perhaps, on the Holy Land Experience in Orlando, Florida.
In keeping with Britain’s [...]
Feeling bereft of corporate bonhomie, I went last night to someone else’s Office Party. Star of the show was US Presidential candidate Tina C who thinks it’s time for trailer trash in the White House. (Again…?) Tina (aka Chris Green, but not that Chris Green) proves once and for all that no amount of sexuality [...]
It is easy to rail at the Bush administration for the chains in which they tie up their AIDS funding for developing countries — the just-cross-your-legs prevention policies, the our-drugs-or-no-drugs treatment protocols, the abolitionist approach to the sex industry. But you have to give them credit for upping the ante on funding, and for taking [...]
One World AIDS Day, December 1, The Guardian published a piece in which I railed against leaving men out of our HIV prevention equation. (We can’t wait for equality) This rang bells with Michelle Kermode, from the University of Melbourne in Australia. Michelle is interested in focusing more attention on men in HIV prevention; [...]
Mothers and teenage daughters dominated London’s talk radio stations this morning, after the UK government said it would try making the contraceptive pill available over the counter in pharmacies (see The Guardian for a news report). Opponents of the move (including some teenage girls) said that it would encourage people to go out and have [...]
Uganda is getting ready to offer free circumcision to men nationwide as a way of preventing the spread of HIV, according to a report in the New Vision newspaper. Studies in Uganda, South Africa and Kenya have shown that circumcision reduces the risk of acquiring HIV heterosexually by up to two thirds. But does that [...]
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