There are arguments for threatening the move. But there are none for actually deploying it.
For the first time in years, young women with push chairs were happy to stop and talk to someone wearing a blue rosette, and even to take balloons for the children.
Plus: Shapps will be Tory Chairman until the election. The Church of England is a left-wing sect. Philomena. Current Affairs. And: Pamela Parker, In Memoriam.
It’s always the most self-regarding individuals of either sex who feel most entitled to take advantage of a helping hand.
We should not be seduced into thinking that there is a short term easy win.
The criticism of Sarah Wollaston has nothing to do with her being a woman
The retention of the post of Minister for Women is – at best – an irrelevance.
in gaining the prize of liberating women to work, the pendulum may have swung too far the other way.
Employers either gamble that such women have no immediate plans to start a family – or hire a man with equivalent, or even weaker, credentials and avoid the risk.
The Conservatives have much to do in selecting a wider range of candidates – but quotas are outdated and wrong.
It isn’t women in general, or feminism in particular, that denigrates the domestic domain or the work of care
When it comes to the policy priorities of men and women, there is little to choose between their likelihood to vote Tory.
If we do not stop this barbaric practice, we will have failed to protect young girls from horrific abuse.
The Bill to help do so is welcome. But in order for the legislation to be world class, more will need to be done.