Why is it so hard to get a proper women’s self-defence course in the UK?

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Congratulations to you for your fantastic run warring violence against women.

Can I constituent retired 1 unusual anomaly? It is precise hard to get a due women’s self-defence people successful the UK.

If you spell online, you’ll spot that the courses being offered are astir each from small, backstage ‘fighting schools’. As acold arsenic I’m aware, nary of the large NGOs oregon charities moving against gender unit are involved.

I recognize that they privation to promote de-escalation and make a satellite wherever determination is nary request for self-defence courses. But this inactive seems unusual to me. However, I americium not an expert, truthful possibly there’s a bully crushed for this.

I marque films teaching CPR. I’ve ne'er heard anyone say, ‘You shouldn’t thatch CPR due to the fact that it makes radical little apt to pb a steadfast lifestyle.’ Of course, you should larn CPR arsenic good arsenic trying to pb a steadfast lifestyle.

Similarly, determination indispensable beryllium a simplification successful favoritism and misogyny arsenic good asmuch amended availability of self-defence courses for women.

Your shocking statistic unfortunately show that self-defence skills bash inactive request to beryllium taught. Martin, via email

Thank you for shining a airy connected domestic abuse – the figures are genuinely shocking! It’s clip to measurement up and enactment an extremity to it. Well done for spearheading this campaign. I basal with you. Neil Dance, Birmingham

Who destroyed NHS dentistry?

Not the conservatives…
I americium a dentist of astir 40
years lasting and I americium inactive moving successful the profession.

George (MetroTalk, Mon) blames the information that helium is incapable to get his breached denture repaired oregon replaced, connected a succession of Conservative premier ministers, namely Cameron, Johnson, Truss and Sunak.

George’s misguided presumption that the responsibility lies with the Conservatives is wrong. It does not. George’s inability to get the NHS dental attraction helium desires is solely the responsibility of Labour Party, successful peculiar nether Tony Blair’s leadership.

He efficaciously destroyed NHS dentistry erstwhile helium introduced the existent declaration nether which NHS dental services are provided, successful 2006. David Rowland, via email

Mortgages past and now

They’re inactive much expensive
T from Glasgow (MetroTalk, Mon) says millennials shouldn’t kick astir location prices due to the fact that portion they were cheaper successful their parents’ day, wages were besides lower.

T’s constituent is that those factors cancel each different retired – but they don’t.

In the 1970s, the mean location outgo 4 times the mean yearly income but contiguous the mean location costs 8.8 times the mean yearly income. This makes mortgages much expensive.

T should number themselves fortunate they aren’t trying to bargain a location contiguous – astir millennials can’t get connected the spot ladder astatine all. Richard Wood, Willesden Green

Fly-tipping, self-service and existing

‘It starts with 1 bag…’
With respect to the grandma fined for fly-tipping aft leaving a container beside a afloat British Heart Foundation postulation slope successful Dartford (Metro, Tue).

I hold with the council, I’m afraid. It starts with 1 container and earlier you cognize it there’s a stack of them, unfastened to the elements. You spot the aforesaid extracurricular foundation shops. And I person seen radical unfastened and rummage done the bags leaving much of a mess. Paul Wilcox, Ottershaw

‘Self work queues aren’t for afloat trolleys’
I liked Carlos’s communicative astir an irate queue forming astatine the self-service tills due to the fact that a ‘little aged lady’ kept calling an adjunct due to the fact that she was confused (MetroTalk, Mon). He accidental it’s not ever the ‘unexpected point successful the bagging area’ that slows things down but sometimes the ‘inexperienced idiosyncratic successful the scanning area’.
What annoys maine is erstwhile radical artifact the country with a afloat trolley. These areas should lone beryllium for handbasket shoppers – they’re designed for speedy work and to debar the queue astatine the staffed tills. Robert James, St Albans

‘legally not existing’
Re Caitlin Walton ‘legally not existing’ due to the fact that of not having a commencement certificate (Metro Tue). I stake she’d beryllium if the authorities wanted to taxation her. Richard, via email

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