I came prepared with a list of my skills. I would be the best altar boy ever. So good, in fact, that he would only need one: just Father Hansen and me, on stage. Blowing everyone away. Our meeting was in the rectory study. Wood paneling, leather chairs, even more Jesus pictures than we had, [...]
On a recent weekday evening at London’s Wembley Stadium, half a dozen Muslim women, some wearing headscarves, were taking it in turns to flip over some male opponents with impressive shoulder-height kicks. These women, demonstrating Safari Kickboxing’s female-only Muay Thai Kickboxing classes, were taking part in a ground-breaking celebration of Muslim women in sport. Pioneered [...]
One of the most prolific and leaders in style, Vidal Sassoon, who pioneered women’s hair styling from his Canrnaby Street salon in the swingin 1960′s, died at his home in Los Angeles aged 84. Police were called to Sassoon’s mansion in Mulholland Drive, Beverly Hills at about 10.30am on Wednesday where they found the stylist dead. [...]
Much of the media coverage and discussion of the trial of nine men convicted of sexually abusing five teenage girls is focused on ethnicity. That eight of the perpetrators are Asian appears to be more relevant than the reasons why the rape of young, vulnerable girls is so widespread and the crime so difficult to [...]
Professor Lesley Yellowlees, soon to become the Royal Society of Chemistry’s first woman president, has said that Britain is half a century behind the US when it comes to opportunities for female researchers. Is she right? The US certainly has an illustrious record when it comes to female scientists. In 1873, industrial chemist Ellen Swallow [...]
Arrested for being a public nuisance outside a takeaway shop, the 15-year-old blamed her behaviour – screaming and bashing the counter – on the systemic abuse she had suffered at the hands of two men inside. During six hours of videotaped testimony she went on to say how she’d been lured in by the men [...]
Niger is the worst country on earth in which to be a mother, according to a report by Save the Children. The charity’s annual Mothers’ Index uses statistics covering female and child health and nutrition, as well as prospects for women’s education, economic prosperity and political participation in its assessment of 165 countries. Niger’s current [...]
Spreading bets is wisdom shared by the old!! And I think there are many truths to be found in that saying. Many tend to casually refer to this concept differently – sometimes, we are advised not to put all our eggs in one basket, others refer to the same concept as diversification, others advice us [...]
Just over a year ago, as Lucy Foster was approaching her 30th birthday, she felt, “for the first time in my life … an awareness of my gender”. An associate director with the acclaimed theatre company Improbable, she says: “It wasn’t that I was exactly thinking about having babies, but there seemed to be something [...]
