The Times Online: have some free chocolate even though you may have diabetes and could die

How many times can the Life & Style section of The Times contradict itself on one page? Let us count the ways! Now, I actually really do love The Times and think that most of the time, they have some excellent columns. However. If you look at the Life & Style section today, it's full of contradictions. How can you have a stick thin model on the same page as a story on obesity, and then further down have a feature about the best fish and chips shop in the UK? Isn't offering free chocolate whilst warning that diabetes is "a killer" and that you may have it without knowing it a bit odd?

I think covering a story about the differences between boys and girls in the classroom, and why boys are falling behind in school is fantastic. However, when you then feature a story about how cooking is now mandatory in both mixed gender and boys-only schools as not to "throw-back to the days of gender stereotyping" and then use a photo with only girls cooking, that is not so fantastic.

Ah, the mixed messages of modern media.

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