It is the potential for fun that fatness has always been such a rich part of British heritage but woke enthusiasms threaten to airbrush this type of character out of our national story.
It is the potential for fun that fatness has always been such a rich part of British heritage but woke enthusiasms threaten to airbrush this type of character out of our national story.
Media coverage of poor health is littered with defiant military metaphors. Individual battles are fought against illness; wars are launched against diseases; medicines are weaponised and locked on target. ‘We are undefeatable,’ declares one TV advert for a campaign run by the charity Activity Alliance. Use of martial language is particularly common in the coronavirus … Read more