Why any man who dates women under 30 is a massive creep, by 32-year-old Charlotte Phelps

PERVERTS, the lot of them. A man dating a 27-year-old ought to have his photo up behind the bar in Nando’s and a curfew. 

Setting your upper age range as 30 on Tinder? Barred from the app and a police visit is automatically triggered. If he’s replied to two or more women his devices should be seized.

How can any relationship with that kind of power differential be healthy? Men who aren’t strong enough for a confident, independent woman their own age, instead preying on lithe women with dewy buttocks and no conversation.

It’s the girls I worry for. A 38-year-old’s panting atop you, red-faced with the effort of putting his PlayStation controller down, close to cardiac arrest. Because of his fatty heart, not because she’s so sexy.

And really, old men dating innocent, perky-bosomed girls must be hating every second of it, their anecdotes about seeing Iron Man in the actual cinema falling flat. Women under 30 may be able to vote, work and buy homes, but they can’t meaningfully consent to sex with that.

Nor is it just men over 30. Men in their 20s have to be restricted. Turning down relationships with real women for a string of hook-ups with clear-skinned beauties who don’t remember Bennifer from the first time around? Just to have someone to patronise?

These poor girls, who could happily stay inside crocheting, must be protected. Cloistered. I’m thinking a benign form of nunnery. 

Enforcing this on men would encourage them not to age-dump their girlfriends when commitment looms leaving women 32 and single, which is an equitable outcome for everyone. 

Big area of Britain nobody cares about to be flooded

A SWATHE of Britain that is of no real import, ranging from Bedford to Andover and from Northampton to Reading, is to be flooded today. 

Residents of a host of places that could not honestly be said to matter from Leighton Buzzard to Banbury are preparing for three months of rainfall in a day and widespread indifference.

Meteorologist Norman Steele said: “Northamptonshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Wiltshire, Bedfordshire: it’s a roll-call of Britain’s least loved counties.

“Commiserations to anyone who lives there, obviously, for the rain and for the general hopelessness. But you can’t expect a great deal of sympathy. You made the bad choice.

“Basically it’s middle and western England, missing out the Chilterns where the media people live, the cities where lots of people live and anywhere nice you may have been on holiday. The only location of note is Oxford where the plummy smart-arse pricks deserve it.

“So while you will see flooding on the news tonight, feel no concern. If this particular part of the UK was submerged forever it would be a net positive.”

Francesca Johnson of Stevenage said: “I live in the affected area so I feel I should be the first to say: let it all drown.”