Kicking: Against The Pricks

Two women die from domestic violence every week. It really shouldn't take this ad to remind us that there's something wrong about that.

Coincidentally, yesterday my daughter was inspired to fire up her mothballed blog once more, and inspired by the surprising chorus of disapproval she got from some of her student colleagues for daring to voice disquiet with a song lyric which seemed to consider drunkenness as an invitation to sex.

Clearly this recent Scottish campaign didn't get through to some of our duller residents.