Have the Tories finally managed to identify what women want? Latest polling (pdf) has found that 43% of female voters say they will vote for the Conservatives at the next election, compared with the 37% who put their trust in Labour. Twice as many women than men have yet to make up their mind how [...]
Jean Dujardin in one of the controversial posters for Les Infidèles He’s the charming hearthrob in the award-winning silent film The Artist and tipped to be the first Frenchman to win a best actor Oscar this month. But Jean Dujardin is at the centre of a row over what are seen as sexist posters for [...]
The woman speaking admiringly of French quotas for women in the boardroom looks like Katie from the Apprentice – all insufferable smugness and weird back-combing – while her male boardroom colleagues perfectly undermine her, yet it’s hard not to smile at this Alex cartoon in the Telegraph. Once again, the cartoon character seems to perfectly [...]
There’s an old joke: four women are throwing dinner parties. The French woman presents her main course with a gusty: “Bon appétit.” The Italian woman invites her guests to tuck in with a buoyant: “Buon appetito.” The Spanish woman raises a glass and says: “Buen provecho.” And the British woman slips the dishes apologetically onto [...]
New forms of digital technology and social networking sites such as Facebook are increasingly putting people at risk of stalking, according to a report published on Wednesday. The study, from Women’s Aid and the Network for Surviving Stalking, warns that mobile phones, particularly smartphones, are increasingly being targeted. Spyware could be installed on the phone [...]
Three members of an Afghan family living in Canada have been sentenced to life in prison for the murders of three teenage sisters and the ex-wife of one of the defendants Link to this video On Sunday a Canadian court found three members of an Afghan family, the father, mother and son, guilty of killing [...]
Did it all start when Arlene Phillips was booted off Strictly, to be replaced by Alesha Dixon? Or when details emerged of Miriam O’Reilly’s treatment by Countryfile bosses? Or is it just regular viewing of programmes that purport to show a range of opinion, whether serious (Question Time) or supposedly humorous (Mock the Week), but [...]
I would like to write an ode to Uni Lad, which after a Twitter onslaught seems to have closed itself down. This was a website that made my life easier and more straightforward and I thank them for that. I thank you for your candour and your single-minded pursuit of a masculine stereotype that makes [...]
She’s working-class, unashamedly rightwing, famous for typo-strewn streams of consciousness on Twitter and, caricatured as a fishwife on the French version of Spitting Image, is one of the most parodied politicians in Paris. But Nadine Morano is Nicolas Sarkozy‘s top female “super-sniper”, regularly dispatched to the media frontline to issue outraged putdowns of the left. [...]
