3 h. ago Swiss voters consider whether women, like all male citizens, must do national service

Swiss voters are deciding whether women should be required to do national service like men

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52 h. ago Germany raised its citizens to hate war. Now it wants us to enlist in the army – but we say no | Mithu Sanyal

The war in Ukraine is a crime. But European leaders should be working for peace, not preparing young people to fight and dieWhen I was growing up, the most German sentence imaginable was: “We’ve lost two world wars and we’re proud of it.” We were so anti-military, we even gave our policemen green uniforms, to make them look more like foresters than soldiers. Now, the chancellor, Friedrich Merz, wants our army to become the strongest in Europe. I mean, what could go wrong?After we lost the second world war – or, as we prefer to say, after we were liberated by the allies – we swore “never again”: never again to war, and never again to Auschwitz. Admittedly, Germany rearmed in 1955, but just as “citizens in uniform”, not as soldiers following orders. Mind you, that didn’t mean that you could say “no” to an order; it just meant that we had conscription for most young men until 2011. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Trump team takes ‘America first’ to National Parks and charges foreign visitors three times what citizens pay

The Department for the Interior announced plans for the updated entry fee policies which start on January 1

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5 d. ago Two men accused of sick murderous plot to take over island and turn women into sex slaves

Gavin Rivers Weisenburg, 21, and Tanner Christopher Thomas, 20, are accused of making plans to take over a island in Haiti, murder its male inhabitants and turn women and children into sex slaves

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5 d. ago Horror stories of a ‘feminised workplace’ mask the real crisis in male identity | Finn Mackay

Stereotypes that centre mens’ worth in their work are strangling sensible debate, and letting down women tooFinn Mackay is an academic and the author of Female Masculinities and the Gender WarsFirst it was mechanisation threatening our jobs, then AI and now this: the Great Feminisation is taking over the workplace. Well, that’s according to American journalist Helen Andrews, who popularised this thesis in a speech to the National Conservatism conference in Washington DC.The idea is that too many women in the workplace, and in positions of power, has led to the dominance of stereotypical feminine values, to the detriment of everyone. Girly things like conflict resolution rather than manly plain speaking, fussy HR departments, or a lack of healthy aggressive competition, have all created an imbalance in the workplace and in the world, suppressing stereotypical masculine values. Andrews fears for her sons and their future in the feminised world that she believes threatens us all.Finn M...

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9 d. ago Women's rights campaigner arrested at Sarah Everard vigil calls for male

A women's rights campaigner who was arrested at the Sarah Everard vigil in 2021 has called for male-only Tube carriages, saying 'the majority of men' are the issue.

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1 week ago Chinese spying amounts to interference in UK democracy, minister says, after MI5 warns MPs – politics live

Dan Jarvis, the security minister, says China is trying to contact MPs and peers to get sensitive information about parliamentBack at the Reform UK press conference, Zia Yusuf, the party’s head of policy, has just finished outlining his plan to cut spending on foreignersAs he finished, Yusuf claimed this was “treachery”.Labour is making the conscious and deliberate decision to continue funding extortionate amounts to foreign nationals, to the detriment of British citizens.And I don’t know what to call that. Frankly, in my view, it’s treachery. I think it’s appalling. British people are sick and tired of it.Just a few months ago, Rachel Reeves was saying she couldn’t afford to scrap the two-child benefit cap. Now it looks like becoming her latest U-turn.This isn’t because the economic circumstances have improved. Quite the opposite. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Naturalized US citizens thought they were safe. Trump's immigration policies are shaking that belief

As President Donald Trump reshapes immigration and the nation’s relationship with immigrants, some naturalized citizens are wondering if the country they made a commitment to when they took the oath of citizenship is still making one to them

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2 w. ago Transgender footballer 'flouts FA ban blocking participation in women's game'

A transgender footballer and their club have reportedly breached Football Association rules barring players born male from participation in the women's game.

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2 w. ago 100s of trans NHS patients diagnosed with biological male illnesses recorded as women

HUNDREDS of transgender NHS patients diagnosed with illnesses that only biological men get were recorded in official figures as women.  Analysis by The Sun suggests self-identifying trans patients had their gender noted as female at least 549 times in the year to April for issues including male infertility.  The NHS England figures included 313 admissions...

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3 w. ago Lucy Bronze defends Mary Earps: 'Female players are constantly under a magnifying glass'

England goalkeeper Mary Earps faced backlash this week over negative comments made about former teammates. In response, two time Euro-winning defender Lucy Bronze says that male footballers would not be subject to such forensic scrutiny as women

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3 w. ago What would your husband say if you told them: 'I saw a bird'? It may sound whimsical, but the answer could say a lot about the state of your relationship

TikTok is currently awash with hundreds of videos of women trying out the 'Bird Test' on their unsuspecting male partners. Here. London-based relationship coach Kate Mansfield decodes it.

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3 w. ago I was trying to run for the presidency in Uganda – yet men still found the audacity to call me ‘baby, sweetheart, darling’ | Yvonne Mpambara

I was bruised by my experience of being kept out of an exclusively male political club – now my focus is on getting women into power in AfricaIt’s six weeks since the electoral commission of Uganda announced the eight candidates for the country’s 2026 presidential election. The fact that they are all men is an outrage – and entirely unsurprising.Of the 221 people who expressed an interest in running for president, 15 were women; and of those, only three of us gained enough voter support to be considered for nomination. Continue reading...

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