I was recently tweetasked (twasked? Yes, I wish this to become a word) to sign a petition campaigning to remove VAT from sanitary products, which they attract by being classed as ‘non-essential items’. Now, I have thanked a great, benevolent and – on these grounds – quite possibly female god every month since I was 13 that modern menstru-wear exists.

I was recently tweetasked (twasked? Yes, I wish this to become a word) to sign a petition campaigning to remove VAT from sanitary products, which they attract by being classed as u2018non-essential itemsu2019. Now, I have thanked a great, benevolent and u2013 on these grounds u2013 quite possibly female god every month since I was 13 that modern menstru-wear exists.

"VAT on tampons should not be axed"