My mother apologised to me for feeding us margarine as children, instead of butter. We even used to bake with it, which I consider unthinkable now. Truly the past is a foreign country. (View Post)

I'm one of the (few?) PBers who have married twice since I started posting on PB.com, avoiding bigamy with a divorce in the middle. I think that an important part of the value of a marriage is t… (View Post)

Isn't it even more simple? I'm not a cat. There's no risk of someone driving me off to the vet to put me to sleep. If assisted dying is brought in then there's a perceived risk th… (View Post)

I think we've got to be careful about simply assuming it's a free choice by women not to have children. There are loads of pressures on women that affect their choices, not least of which w… (View Post)

There's so much pent-up demand - young people living in HMOs, or still at home with their parents, divorcees wanting to provide twice as much space for their kids as when they were still togethe… (View Post)