The Queen reaches her 10th decade. Photograph: Andrew Parsons/i-ImagesThe Queen reaches her 10th decade. Photograph: Andrew Parsons/i-Images10 of the best classicalClassical music10 of the best: birthday piecesThe Queen iscelebrating her 90th with music from Andrea Bocelli, Alfie Boe and Katherine Jenkins. With what music have kings, queens and commoners past celebrated their birthdays?
Handel: Ode for the Birthday of Queen AnneHandel composed this cantata for the 48th birthday of Queen Anne in February 1713. Read More...
Guardian StudentsStudentsThe focus wasn't on my would-be attacker, but on me and my conductRead more: drink spiking – victims don't report and the crime goes unpunished
Sometimes a painful event from your past comes back to haunt you. All it needs is a trigger. So it was with a jolt that I came across the #IAmJada news story last month.
Jada, 16, launched the hashtag after finding graphic photos of herself on Twitter – they'd been taken at a party after her drink was spiked. Read More...
The ObserverMenstruationWhen Rachel Kauder Nalebuff had her first period, it was broadcast to her wider family, to her intense shame. Sharing the experience unearthed a treasure chest of stories, which became her new anthology, Our Red Book
At a family Passover seder in Queens, I was sitting at the kids’ table, like every other year of my life beforehand. Clinking her glass, my mother announced to my extended family that I had “become a woman”. Read More...
