Road safety This article is more than 1 year old‘Motonormativity’: Britons more accepting of driving-related riskThis article is more than 1 year oldAllowance made for dangers that would not be accepted in other parts of life, finds study with potentially major policy implications
British people appear to have an in-built acceptance of risks and harms from motor vehicles that they would not accept in other parts of life, a study has discovered, with potentially widespread repercussions for how policy decisions are made. Read More...
The ObserverKylie MinogueThe butt starts hereKylie Minogue's much photographed Rear of the Year, Jennifer Lopez's star buttocks and Serena Williams's bootylicious bum have drawn attention away from breasts as the body part du jour. With Kylie and J-Lo in the vanguard, women are now more upfront about their best physical asset, says Frances O'TooleIt was a flesh-coloured, floor-draping evening dress. The seams were bursting, the zip showed, in a clumsy, tacky way that you don't quite expect of Yves St Laurent, but this was no fashion disaster. Read More...
History booksReviewRichard J Evans’s sweeping history lays bare a century of freedom and oppression, progress and misruleA daughter of revolution born to a new world father and an old world mother, Flora Tristan had little power in early 19th-century France. Women’s rights remained limited, and as a teenager Flora was pressured into marrying a Montmartre artisan with whom she suffered a life of “endless torture”. But in 1825, Flora left her husband and exerted her independence: she travelled to Peru, wrote feminist pamphlets, and while visiting Britain sneaked into the House of Commons dressed as a Turkish man. Read More...
