TRADITION’S a funny thing. It’s afforded special privileges rarely bestowed on customs of recent standing, mainly that we follow it with unwavering loyalty without pausing to deconstruct its relevance, meaning or good sense. Take a man asking a woman to marry him. We’ve done it…
IT’S hard not to have sorry on your mind this weekend, our Prime Minister having just issued a mass apology on our behalf. It took long enough: 11 years after it was first suggested, and several decades after the incidents we’re saying sorry for occurred,…
Oh no, it’s here again. The one day of the year designed to mock those who haven’t found love. Give it your best shot to avoid it but it’s kind of hard with love hearts dripping over shop counters making an appearance pretty much as…
FOR all our talk about sensitive, new-age men who share their feelings, wear moisturiser and cook, we still cringe slightly when they cry. There have been a couple of recent incidents that got me thinking about this. Heath Ledger was the first. Not that we…