Philobiblon

The Times ties itself in knots trying to report the words of Margot Wallström. The comment is feminist, but it is also anti-Europe, so The Times hates it and loves it all at

the same time. What she said about the selection procedure for top EU jobs:
“Where does this debate really take place? I am still puzzled. It is extremely strange. All I know is that it is always men, and very rarely do you hear about female candidates. Men choose men. That is the disadvantage of this situation.”

The Guardian’s “bad science” column discovers – perhaps unsurprisingly, that a Telegraph “survey” on doctor’s view of abortions in GP surgeries wasn’t worth the weight of paper on which it was written (which was zero, since it was in a doctor’s chatroom). What does worry me is that it appears at least some of the doctors responding were unaware of the existence of medical (as opposed to surgical) abortions.

And The Daily Mail is predictably sarky, but girls are taking up football (soccer) in large numbers, dumping netball and hockey. As I’ve written before in another venue, allowing girls to compete in the same sports as boys (not a “ladyified” choice such as netball), with the boys, on a true level playing field, is an important advance.