A minister for men would help solve one problem
Why don’t we have a minister for men? That’s the question Tory MP Ben Bradley asked this week, and he’s found himself the centre of a great deal of social media fury for doing so. I say ‘found himself’, but it’s highly unlikely Bradley really thought anything else was going to happen, not least because he made this call during a backbench debate he had organised with his Conservative colleague Philip Davies, who has a specialism in winding people up. In that debate, Bradley argued that ‘men are talked about, all too often, as a problem that must be rectified’, and complained that the equalities agenda seemed to exist to