Menopause classes are being given to police officers and firefighters to help them understand colleagues who may be going through it. Female colleagues, that is.

The taxpayer-funded classes will be given by self-styled ‘Menopause Doctor’ Louise Newson, a GP, who has assured beleaguered taxpayers that she will be charging well below her usual £190 an hour for these valuable services.

Conservative MP David Davies has called the classes “a waste of money” while even Jenni Murray off Wimmin’s Hour made a fuss – arguing that these classes implied menopausal women were less able to function in the workplace.

TCW would far rather have more bobbies on the beat than menopausal madness in the classroom.