Singletons are being discriminated against for not having partners or children with financial penalties and longer working hours. That’s according to UK Academic, Dr Sam Middlemass, who told us why he thinks single people should be a legally protected minority. Andrea Smith is a freelance journalist joined us to discuss.

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