In her paper entitled: White Privilege Male Privilege, Peggy Mc Intosh reflects on the daily effect of white privileges in her day to day life. Number 46 on her list is: “I can choose blemish cover or bandages in ‘flesh’ colour and have them more or less match my skin.” Mc Intosh seeks to explain [...]

The writing is on the wall. We are a nation who is getting fatter. Our children are getting fatter, and globally obesity has become a worldwide epidemic. The Social Trends Report 2010 compiled by the Office for National Statistics and released last week, reveals that in 2008 almost a quarter of the adult population in [...]

I’m glad that following a recent change in the law that an eBay scammer who bid on his own items has been prosecuted – but what about the others? Barratt, 39, from County Durham, who ran a minibus hire firm engaged in the practice of “shill bidding” or bidding on your own items in order [...]