Workers install a mustache on the Jolly Green Giant for Movember (Image: AP/Andy Clayton-King)
Workers install a mustache on the Jolly Green Giant for Movember (Image: AP/Andy Clayton-King)

Next week is men’s health week. I don’t go in for days, and weeks, and months, much. Indeed I find them about as meaningful as those Hallmark holidays designed by capitalists to try to get you to express basic human emotions via consumerism. As a male, and a (very) middle-aged one at that, I guess I should be grateful some mob of lobbyists, public health advocates and bureaucrats have got together and dedicated an entire seven days to keeping me well, but I’d rather they minded their own damn business.