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“No man stands taller than when he stoops to help a child.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“Any fool can have a child. That doesn’t make you a father. It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.”
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World Mental Health Day: It’s OK to Not Be OK (But We Still Don’t Talk About It)
Today is World Mental Health Day.You’ll see the usual posts, the green hearts, the motivational quotes, the company LinkedIn pages promising “We care.”And while all of that comes from a good place, tomorrow the world will move on. But for a lot of people, especially men, the noise in their head doesn’t stop when the Read more
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When Black Children Are Macheted to Death: Why Are We Silent?
Imagine: babies, toddlers, entire families hacked to pieces with machetes. Not in a war zone televised by drones, but in villages in Nigeria’s so-called “Middle Belt,” Southern Kaduna, southern Plateau, and other contested zones. These are places where ethnic, religious, and land disputes intersect, where the strongest win and where the most vulnerable are slaughtered… Read more
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Parenting is Hard (and Single Parenting is Even Harder)
et’s be honest, men don’t always come wired with the same nurturing instincts as women. Maybe that’s controversial, but I’ve seen it first-hand. For a lot of blokes, we’ve been conditioned to play a role — go to work, bring home the money, dip in for the fun bits, and let mum manage the day-to-day… Read more
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When Did Listening Become a Lost Art?
Take Tommy Robinson. For many, his name alone ends the conversation. And yet, dismissing every word because of who speaks it is not the same as engaging with ideas. At the Freedom March in London, the crowd wasn’t simply caricatures of the far-right. Among them were ordinary people: middle-class women, professional men, those unsettled by… Read more
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“THEY KILLED CHARLIE KIRK — AND IN THE UK, THEY’RE ARRESTING YOU FOR A TWEET”
So here’s the brutal truth: In the U.S., political violence is becoming lethal. In the U.K., words are now crimes. Across the Western world, free speech is collapsing Read more
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Cinema for One—A Love Letter to My Own Company
Monday night, 8:45 p.m. The foyer smells of nacho cheese and over-priced popcorn, and I’m wielding a ticket for a single seat in Row G seat 1. It has taken me forty years and three months to march into a cinema without a wingman, and my inner critic is yelling: People will think you’ve got Read more
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“From the moment I heard I was going to be a father, I knew my world would never be the same.”
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