The article mentions a number of troubling ways boys are doing worse than girls. Rates of suicide are much higher. There's a gap in educational attainment:
On average, across every subject at GCSE, boys’ results are half a grade lower than girls’. At A-level, girls outperform boys by an average of more than a grade and a half across their best three subjects. Boys are also twice as likely as girls to be excluded from school, while in British universities, female students outnumber males by three to two.
In decades past, we rightly built programs to ensure that girls received a good schooling and were prepared for post secondary education. Boys need similar programs.
“Our education system is not working for boys,” the report warns. “From the day they start primary school, to the day they leave higher education, the progress of boys lags behind girls.” One of Sir Keir Starmer’s government “milestones” is to ensure that 75 per cent of reception-age children are ready for school. The figure is currently 67 per cent, but this conceals a huge gender gap: 75 per cent of girls are school-ready, compared with just 60 per cent of boys.
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Suicide is the biggest cause of death among young men. “Between the ages of 15 and 19, for every girl that took their own life, almost three and a half boys did likewise,” the report notes. “A man in the East Midlands is six times more likely to take [his] own life than a woman in London.”
How do you keep finding yourself on submarines? I've been around for a long time, and I've never been on a sub. I've never even been close enough to ask one about its ideology. Multiple subs? Damn.
This is one of those problems where I don't really care about the exact nature of the solution, just that it's addressed. Individuals hoarding wealth and power to the detriment of society is bullshit.
Typically taxes are on income, but the stupidly wealthy pay accountants to do weird financial tricks so it looks like they don't have income, even though they have incredible lifestyles and wield outsized influence thanks to their money. A wealth tax theoretically sidesteps that crap.
News sites typically try to associate stories with current events. Black History Month is scheduled, so it's really easy to commission or pitch something like this.
I agree with your point, but it has more to do with how news organizations expect their readers to act than anything else.
Eh. If you're worried about people thinking it's a weird or offensive name, just pick another name. You don't have to use it.
As an aside: I wouldn't broadcast a variant of my name as a network name or mention it on social media. I don't think anything bad is likely to happen, but it's just good practice.
What do you mean "ex-believer"? I still use Linux every day.