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Scottish summertime health warning

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School’s out. The sun’s out. The sky is blue. Birds are singing. Scotland’s tabloid journalists are rushing to tell us which exotic place it’s hotter than. (I just asked the Panther and it’s Morocco apparently. The streets are athrong with citizens enjoying the warm – like being on holiday, only you have to go to […]

Facebook folly: I like them on my chest and lump-free

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I wrote this 5 years ago, but as I’ve just had my first routine mammogram it seems like an appropriate day to resurface this.  It’s come round again. That time of year when women post silly suggestive things as their Facebook status apparently to bewilder poor men and raise awareness of breast cancer. I did […]

What I know about the gender pay gap

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Well. What do you know? Women who are mothers get paid even less than men. In yet another report from the Laboratories of the Blindingly Obvious, we do at least get a name for that thing that most of us knew what was happening – it’s a gender pay gap. It doesn’t mean that women […]