Why thousands of midlife women are too afraid to drive on the motorway. Amaxophobia is a ‘hidden epidemic’ affecting many UK drivers. Three women explain how they took back control.

Our thanks to Nigel for this (Telegraph, £). He writes:

“This article made me laugh. Just another of the seemingly endless parade of reasons women struggle to navigate everyday life, let alone a full-time job! In fact I’m sure many people get a bit less gung-ho as they age and become more cautious. But as usual it’s women who need lots of help and sharing and sympathy. It never seems to occur to the purveyors of this that adding it all together creates an image of females as very high maintenance indeed requiring all sorts of special consideration and support. And by ignoring men, suggests they either have none of these problems or simply just get on with it. In either case rather making the point as to why it’s literally a ‘man made’ world.”

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Strongest Men vs Strongest Fish

It’s what men do (video, 31:22). If the rod touches the gunwale in the course of the struggle, the fish wins. To get a flavour of the matter, start at 3:40. The rod touches the gunwale in less than two seconds after the hook was set in the mouth of a Goliath grouper, which can grow to lengths of 2.5 meters (8 feet) and weigh up to 363 kilograms (800 pounds).

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No10 advertises £30k security job but drops experience requirement to ‘welcome diversity’

You couldn’t make it up. Diversity takes precedence over experience. What could possibly go wrong?

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‘Restriction zones’ to be introduced for domestic abusers

Our thanks to Steve for this. An extract:

“Justice minister Alex Davies-Jones [J4MB: A woman, as is the Justice minister Shabana Mahmood] will announce the new measure at charity Advance in London on Friday.

The victims minister [J4MB: Alex Davies-Jones is the Minister for Victims and Violence Against Women and Girls] will say abusers will be GPS monitored to provide real-time data about where they are going, and subject to “virtual boundaries”.

[End of extract.]

Steve writes:

“Men already don’t have the same property rights as women because a man’s occupation rights can be cancelled in a heartbeat by the Police (not the Courts).

Now, men won’t have the same rights in the public space.  The Probation Service will now be able to cancel a man’s access rights to public space (again, not the Courts.  It’s debatable whether even the Courts should have this power.)

The bar is set now so low to be classed as a domestic abuser or sex offender, any man could get caught up in this.”

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