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A columnist for the Sunday Times in Ireland has been fired, and told that he "will not write again" for the newspaper after one of his articles was branded "misogynistic", "anti-Semitic" and "disgraceful". A News UK spokesman said the column included "unacceptable comments both to Jewish people and to women in the workplace", and that an apology will also be printed in next week's paper, in addition to the grovelling personal apologies offered by the paper's editor, Martin Ivens.

In the piece, titled "Sorry, ladies - equal pay has to be earned", Kevin Myers suggested that BBC presenters Claudia Winkleman and Vanessa Feltz earned the highest salaries of any females employed by the BBC because they were Jewish. Commenting on the two of them, Mr Myers wrote: "Good for them. Jews are not generally noted for their insistence on selling their talent for the lowest possible price, which is the most useful measure there is of inveterate, lost-with-all-hands stupidity." In the article, Mr Myers also argued that male presenters may earn more because they "work harder, get sick less frequently and seldom get pregnant".

It was taken down following anger on social media and a formal complaint from the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism. The group claimed that the removal of the article and apology from editors within hours was "proof that the decision to include the column was irrefutably wrong". The group, which successfully called for Mr Myers' sacking, also called Myers a "vile, sexist, misogynistic anti-Semite", and said he should "no longer work as a journalist at any decent publication".

So then, what are your opinions of Kevin Myers' article, of what he said in it, and of the massive reaction to it?

I personally don't. I would never go out of my way and harass a trans person or anything like that and if a person wants to dress in different clothing or behave differently than others or even get their penis cut if than they can and I don't care it doesn't affect me. But in my eyes a transwoman will never be a woman and they will always be a man. Also for that reason I would never date a transwomab because as far as I'm concerned they are a man and no amount of surgery, make up or hormone therapy can change that.

A British school teacher, who had sex with a student in a plane toilet on a school trip, has been banned from the profession. Miss Eleanor Wilson, 28, who worked in Bristol, kissed the pupil and drank alcohol with him while on the flight. A National College for Teaching & Leadership (NCTL) panel found she engaged in sexual activity with a male pupil in August 2015. The panel's report found her guilty of unacceptable professional conduct, and banned her from teaching indefinitely.

The NCTL found an "inappropriate relationship" took place with the pupil in 2015/16 when she met him in her office, shared her mobile number with him, took him on outings, drank alcohol with him and kissed him on more than one occasion. Miss Wilson also encouraged the pupil, who has not been identified, to hide their relationship and lied about it when an investigation into the allegations was undertaken by the school, the panel said. The panel ruled she "fell significantly short of the standards expected of the profession".

The teacher, who had denied the allegations, was sacked by the school last year and was not present at the NCTL hearing. However, Miss Eleanor Wilson hasn't faced any criminal charges, and isn't being prosecuted with any crimes. What do you make of this?

For the record I suffer from depression myself and I don't think he's in the wrong whatsoever but I've seen so many people say they think he is.

Miss South Africa was doing a soup drive for orphaned children in Africa. She posts a picture of her doing so. Suddenly, the media is in an uproar because of her wearing latex gloves! To be honest I do not see anything wrong. Some of the children were tested HIV positive, what's the harm in wanting to protect herself? Even if the kids were of a different race, I am sure she would still wear gloves if they were tested HIV positive. People need to look on the bright side, she decided to feed these children instead of doing other things. On Twitter, there is a trending hashtag that makes fun of what Miss South Africa did (#MissSAChallenge). I do not feel she deserves the hate, what do you think? Why or why not?