Dating app Bumble has scrapped old-fashioned dating rules by only allowing women to make the first move. It's now launching VIBee – an algorithm that rewards male users for ‘good behaviour’ by giving them VIBee status, helping them stand out from other potential suitors.

Guys, girls, mates. These are phrases we all use almost daily around the workplace. But a new campaign from the Diversity Council of Australia is pointing out their discriminatory nature as gateway phrases to workplace sexism, and it's attempting to help employers stamp it out.

Public shaming is back on the agenda. From fears of being photographed eating on the tube, to apps that erase pics from the night before – the spectre of public criticism looms large. Has social media revived this age-old mechanism of control? Or can shame be a force for positive change?

Masculinity is in flux, and lad culture with it. But that doesn't mean the lad doesn't still hold a place in the hearts and minds of British blokes. Canvas8 sat down with men between the ages of 20 and 40 to find out what it means to be a modern man and where the lad fits in.