Loss of manual jobs could be driving toxic masculinity, says Sting

Sting: 'I don’t have any answers, but maybe the toxicity in society at the moment is [a result of the fact] that we’ve lost that direction for our energy, that male strength. It’s rare we have to use it.' File photo: James Manning/PA

The fact many men no longer use their hands and physicality on a daily basis may be driving some of the toxic traits in modern masculinity, according to Sting.

The singer, who on Wednesday announced that his musical about the last days of a shipyard was coming to London's West End this autumn, said one of the byproducts of deindustrialisation was the loss of physical productivity for men.