Madness this week: Keir and Covid, sex bans, Phillip Schofield and Laurence Fox

    The insanity of the week commencing 12 October 2020.

Your 1950s housewife will not thank you for her hash tag

BBC News today featured a short film about the #TradWives movement: ‘Submitting to my husband like it's 1959': Why I became a #TradWife.’

The film features an extraordinarily tedious woman named Alena Kate Pettitt, who crows dreamily on about her life as a housewife, looking back with nostalgic fondness to a traditional England that once was, and explaining how, having grown up with a single mother herself, she rebelled and wanted a man to take care of her and to live as a housewife.

The Catholic lesson on managing the homosexuality question: go back to basics.

If you think about LGBT people, your thoughts this weekend will surely be drawn to the marking of Pride – and well they should be, for this event both celebrates the great strides that have been made towards LGBT equality, and reminds us that, particularly if we look to the global picture, there is much still to be done.
You might not have realised though that the subject has once again taken up a great deal of time at yet another Church of England synod.

I'm a thoroughly modern brand of old-fashioned

Originally written for, and published on Dear Cupid – the free advice site.

I was particularly amused by a recent comment about my views. I was described as living in “the 1950s,” which I found highly amusing. But when I’d had my chuckle, I got to thinking: what would it be like to be stuck in the 50s? How does the experience of my generation compare to that of my grandparents’? Have things got better or worse, easier or harder?