HENRY FOWLER, assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU), reports on Day 2 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at the Workers’ Retreat, Quorn Grange Hotel
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Assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions HENRY FOWLER reports on day 1 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at Quorn Grange Hotel
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IS it men who are to be the harbingers of the end of humanity as we know it? Before any readers hurry to email me saying I should have started that question “is it women and men who...” sorry you are premature (a word for reasons that will become clear I shall try to avoid in the rest of this article).
It is men only who are causing a potential disaster for the whole of the human species, although women and particularly babies — some as yet unborn — are certainly going to suffer too.
Quite simply, all across the world human male testicular equipment is falling down on the job and failing to produce enough live, fast swimming, go-for-it-lad sperm.
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