With the Winter Olympics around the corner, the International Olympic Committee has a chance to voice concerns over Russia's despicable anti gay laws. Time they showed some balls and made the Russian government understand there are consequences for homophobia and bigotry.
Circumcision: Religious right or child cruelty? A reader wrote in to disagree with E.A Blair's assertion that the age old tradition is a form of sexually perverse mutilation. Check out the back and forth.
When he's not talking to plants (no, seriously) Prince Charles advocates the use of homeopathy. Good for Charlie, but not when he's trying to get the government to fund it too.
Flying by air has become one of the most degrading experiences of modern life. Standing barefoot, zombie like, in endless lines, the forced removal of belts and clothing, the scans which show perfect strangers the content of your pockets and your bowels in 3-D, and finally, people with gigantic carry on bags that take up all the overhead luggage space.
In 2010, Michelle Obama and Beyoncé encouraged America’s youth to quit consuming blizzards of distilled sugar and landslides of lard and, occasionally, raise their heart rates. A few months later, she signed a complex $50million deal with Pepsi, one of the world’s biggest sugar-pushers.
Circumcision reduces sexual pleasure in later life, with many thousands of nerve cells cut off the tip of the penis, and indeed, just like female cutting, that’s the whole reason the practice got started. Why is this barbaric practice still commonplace?