In the wake of #MeToo, Netflix has released a new set of rules governing how its workers interact during filming. For the most part, they seem fairly obvious to anyone who isn’t a creep. The problem is that if you are a creep, you probably won’t even realise they are aimed at you. They include rules [...]
As my son grows from a baby into a toddler I have realised that parenting mainly consists of finding something new to be afraid of at least once a day. While romance is a long way in his future, a study I came across yesterday about how teenagers are now approaching relationships struck fear into my [...]
This is a piece I wrote a couple of years ago for The Herald after a news story in which a girl was found to have sprayed glass cleaner in her housemates' food. I was reminded of it during the week because we're thinking of getting a second dog to keep Vimes company - dogs, poo, [...]
On today's show I interviewed Lynn, who contacted us after seeing a post on our Facebook page referring to porn addiction. The joking comments on the post upset her, because she has lived with a porn addict. Lynn's email is reproduced below, and you can listen back to the interview here. Hi there, I just happened [...]
Most Irish people are not into public displays of affection, grand declarations of love, or anything else likely to mortify us or make us ugly cry ('ugly crying' is a curse of the soft Irish complexion). Like a lot of Irish people, my feelings are best communicated in writing (we've all written the L word on [...]
We’ve all been there. Steve Carson (husband of Miriam O’Callaghan) reportedly said last week – joking, I’m sure – that there are three of them in the marriage. Steve, Miriam, and Miriam’s iPhone. Apart from the obvious – how she has time to even breathe, never mind tweet – it begs the question; how many of [...]
