There was some chap on the radio the other day who'd investigated large infrastructure projects all over the world. He reckoned that the UK is generally no worse than other countries when it comes to… (View Post)

Yes, it's a similar story at my missus's workplace. She's a clinical scientist - a well-paid job - and most of her colleagues are female. Yet whenever a child is sick or some other family emergency o… (View Post)

There's an argument for making it mandatory for both parents to take time off work when they have a baby. A rather tricky argument, admittedly, but something along those lines. (View Post)

Yes, some people don't care how much damage they do; for them it's all worth it if it upsets the right people. (View Post)

Thee is also the fact that in our world of extreme specialisation, we need to maintain a critical number of people of various talents in order to sustain our modern civilisation. We need to have chil… (View Post)