Author Archive: Kevan Pooler
Youth of Today – how the Iron Lady spoilt it for them
In the early 90s, one of Maggie’s henchmen voiced the realisation dawning on the cabinet that the “Enterprise Culture” may have a lethal flaw: it kills society. Writing in the Times Education Supplement – in the dead month of August, when unfortunately few Teachers would see the free staff room copy – the cabinet member …
The Iron Lady – my Nemesis?
Philip Roth’s was Polio, or Polio did for his hero in ‘Nemesis’. Having just read it, and now reading about Sherlock Holmes’ Moriarty, brought me to thinking of my Nemesis: The Iron Lady honestly, really, nearly ‘did’ for me. I quake at the idea of going to see “The Iron Lady”. Meryl Streep has long …
2025 News Flash: No Antibiotics for the Promiscuous.
A STORY: Daily Planet October 7th 2015 Back-bencher Quentin Parkington was pleased his Private Member’s Bill to make people pay for treatment for ‘self-inflicted’ injury was to get a second reading. He told the Daily Planet: “Those of us who uphold Family Values are fed up with paying for the promiscuity of hundreds of thousands …
Russian Roulette – let’s try it with three bullets
Update: Sexual Health in my area: Jan 2012 One Genito Urinary Professional treated around 2500 people for more than 16 different Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) last year. She was, however, shocked by this fact – 29,000 people in Doncaster had Chlamydia last year – 10% of the total population. So, filtering out sexually inactive, old and …
It’s the Genes, Stupid!
Woman’s Hour and sterility. 9th Feb 2012 In 1970, my Dad didn’t want me to wear jeans ‘because they cause sterility’. He had read a theory that heating up the testicles caused sterility and a taste for tight jeans could be a time bomb. He didn’t take into account that I was a hippie and …
Crossed Legs strike worked
17th Oct 2011 Of all people, two male Colombian Judges suggested to the women of Barbacoas that they might motivate their menfolk to swing into action if they had a sex strike. The Colombian women’s “crossed legs” strike of sexual abstinence was aimed at getting a road to their isolated town paved, after officials pledged …
Lysistrata and Nobel
7 Oct 2011 Heartening to see that my use of Lysistrata has plenty of currency – relative to Alf and Kenneth. This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has gone to the woman who, among many other things, successfully persuaded Liberian womenfolk to withhold sex from their menfolk unless they came to the negotiating table in 2002. …
