Grazia view

At a fringe event at the Conservative Party Conference Iain Duncan Smith called on single ladies to do the honourable thing and marry a dysfunctional man. Or he might as well have done when he said unmarried men become a ‘problem for society’ and, out of wedlock, are ‘released to do things they wouldn’t normally do.’ But why should a man rely on a woman’s mothering to rein him in and stop him behaving like a deplorable thug? We’d rather live in a world where everyone takes responsibility for their actions instead of relying on a partner to set them on the straight and narrow. That’s surely preferable to IDS’S vision of Gilead?