In their pre-match coverage of Wales v England in Cardiff at the weekend, the BBC broadcast a short interview with Owen Farrell. Although it was not specified, it seemed that it had been done at
weekly newspaper.
It wasn’t a good week for women in rugby or for women’s rugby in general.
BBC journalist Sonja McLaughlan received horrific social media abuse last Saturday for asking tough questions of England captain Owen Farrell following his side’s defeat against Wales. Most of the bile that came her way was misogynistic and sexist.
That McLaughlan asked questions about incidents that most watchers were spewing about during the game seemed to rankle many male viewers. They were probably the ones screaming at referee Pascal Gaüzère’s howlers and demanding answers. When McLaughlan sought those answers, she was attacked.
The corporation tax increase is a massive mistake
@Mein Herz Brennt: The corporation tax increase is a massive mistake. It is a stealth tax on employees who will be lucky to get any pay rise at all anyway in this environment. Firms won t want to hire when the owners profit is cut further. No word on an equivalent tax on public sector employees? No, I thought not. The worse thing is the message it sends out to businesses and people wanting to start a business. Frankly, a rise in income tax would be preferable to a rise in corporation tax, at least to avoid deterring business activity. This was a Labour budget.
There are times when this whole ‘identity’ question falls into the unbelievably baffling category. First you have to grapple with the terminology. When I read that an Ipsos Mori poll has revealed just 54 per cent of Generation Z say they are ‘only attracted by the opposite sex’ I had to look up who they actually are.
Generation Z, known, rather unfortunately in the current climate, as Zoomers, were born between 1997 and 2012 and are the first generation to grow up entirely in the digital age, so it’s not surprising that they may be open about their sexual preferences given what they’re likely to have read, or indeed seen, on the world wide web.