John Lewis gender-neutral childrenswear removes ‘boys’ and ‘girls’ labels

Our thanks to Martin for this. An extract:

Caroline Bettis, head of childrenswear at John Lewis, said: “We do not want to reinforce gender stereotypes within our John Lewis collections and instead want to provide greater choice and variety to our customers, so that the parent or child can choose what they would like to wear.”

Hmm, might this utter BS have something to do with the fact that the new Managing Director of John Lewis is Paula Nickolds, the first woman to hold the position? We look forward to the commercial decline of John Lewis, and the inevitable claim of sexism by Ms Nickolds when she’s fired for failing to deliver. It’s an outrage that eight out of the nine people on the Waitrose Management Team have penises, not vaginas. How on earth does the store continue to be successful? It’s a mystery, for sure.

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£10 on The Mogg…

The last time I placed a bet in a betting shop (or elsewhere) was 18 July 1986, over 31 years ago. The next day there was a much-heralded fight between Britain’s Frank Bruno and the American Tim Witherspoon. It seemed to me that the odds were heavily influenced by British sentiment, so I placed a small sum on Tim Witherspoon to win, which he duly did, with a technical KO in the 11th of 15 scheduled rounds. I recall feeling uncomfortable collecting my winnings, and haven’t been into a betting shop since.

Until an hour ago, that is. I placed a bet of £10.00, at odds of 6/1, on Jacob Rees-Mogg becoming the next Conservative party leader. The slip is here. I look forward to collecting my winnings in due course, and small-c conservatism starting its long-overdue return to British politics.

I asked the young man at the desk about other favourites for the Conservative party leadership. David Davis is currently #1, The Mogg #2. We then had the following exchange:

Me: What are the odds on Philip Davies becoming the next leader? He’s a Tory MP.

He: Sorry, we only give odds for future leaders of the Conservative and Labour parties.

I blame the feminised education system…

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