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Last year, around 42% of marriages in the UK ended in divorce. In opposite sex marriages, nearly two-thirds of divorces were initiated by women. So, why do so many relationships fail? And is there anything we can do to save them before it’s too late? Authors Matthew Fray and Joanna Harrison are trying to address why we so often struggle or fail in long-term relationships. We’re not talking about those major marriage crimes like infidelity, domestic abuse or gambling away the family savings. They’re focusing on those everyday relationship difficulties – from lack of intimacy to communication problems, lack of trust, or even just forgetting to empty the dishwasher – the things that almost every couple struggles with from time to time. Matthew and Joanna joined Emma Barnett on BBC ...

The older generation takes a strange pleasure in reiterating comments about the absence of responsibility, the lack of focus and the indulgence of young people, using these arguments as a means of excusing the bleak future that their children and grandchildren face. Those arguments are rarely original, but rather they are force-fed to baby boomers by the media as a means of relieving them of all responsibility and of distracting them from the true causes of the tragic shifts that they observe obliquely. It is assumed that for reasons unknown, somehow, young people are less capable, less attentive, less motivated and less concerned with planning for their careers and their futures. This argument makes the previous generation feel somehow more worthy and superior and that is precisel...

Beyond the fervor of Women's Day and its representation by liberals and fawning right wing women organizations, celebrating not the plight of women, but the sophistry it offers to them to be part of the wheel of exploitation of women, Andrea D’Atri takes us through the historical understanding of the true meaning of International Women’s Day. A lot is said about International Women’s Day. The truth is that it was originally associated with a political campaign. The campaign was proposed by the women delegates to the National Convention of the Socialist Party of the United States, held in 1908, in favor of women’s suffrage. They proposed that the last Sunday of February 1909 be designated Woman’s Day and that rallies be organized to launch the campaign for women’s right to vote. ...

There comes a time when shooting around in circles just hits  walls, bullets splinter off sidewalks, and shatter a window here and  there. But people are in safety. They watch from a distance and with  self-assurance. Venezuela has received five tankers from Iran loaded with  hydrocarbons – petrol gas, additives – shipped through a totally  US-militarized Caribbean Sea, amidst warnings of attacks and  retaliations – and as usual, sanctions ’no end’. How much more sanctions  can a country get? There is an immune system, called sovereignty and fearlessness –  confidence and dignity. Knowing your rights. That’s what makes the whole  difference. Granted, the tankers were escorted by the Venezuelan Navy and Air  Force; especially t...