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Checking Your Skin: Moles, Sun Cover and What Men Often Miss
A practical guide to knowing your own skin: what a changing mole can look like, where men tend to overlook it, and how clothing, shade and sunscreen fit together.
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Fibre Content Labels on Clothes: What the Percentages Really Mean
Every garment sold in Great Britain must say what it is made of. Here is how the fibre content label works, from permitted names and "100%" claims to linings, tolerances and animal parts.
Statutory Maternity Leave and Pay Explained
How Statutory Maternity Leave and Statutory Maternity Pay work in Great Britain: the 52 weeks of leave, the 39 weeks of pay, who qualifies and what the numbers look like in practice.
The Gender Pay Gap, Measured Properly: What the Figure Says and What It Doesn't
The headline number is quoted constantly and often misunderstood. What the UK figures actually measure, why the gap is bigger for some groups than others, and how it differs from unequal pay for the same job.
Menopause at Work: What Support Can Look Like
Menopause is a health matter that arrives in the middle of working life, and it is still too often treated as private awkwardness. What the symptoms can involve, what employers are expected to do, and how to start the conversation.
Workplace Dress Codes: What Employers Can Ask of Men
Ties, suits, clean-shaven rules and uniforms are all common at work. Here is how UK equality law and Acas guidance treat dress codes, and what a reasonable one looks like.
How a Suit Should Fit, From the Shoulders Down
Fit is what separates a suit that looks considered from one that merely looks new. A practical walk through the checks worth making in the fitting room, in the order that matters.
Shaving Without the Irritation
Razor burn, bumps and ingrowing hairs are common enough to feel normal, and mostly preventable. A step-by-step look at preparation, technique, and when irritation is a sign to change approach.
Who Gets Paid When a Song Is Played in the UK
Every song on the radio or in a pub involves two separate sets of rights and two collecting societies. Here is how PPL and PRS for Music divide the work, and how the money is shared.
Who to Complain To About Media Coverage: IPSO, IMPRESS and Ofcom
Coverage of public figures, and of everyone else, can be challenged, but the right route depends on the medium and the publisher. A guide to the UK bodies that handle complaints about newspapers, magazines and broadcasts.