Domestic violenceToo many women’s lives are ending after what those accused of their deaths say were ‘sex games gone wrong’. But how did strangling ever become normalised?
Jan Wynne-Jones knows almost nothing about her daughter Vicky’s last living moments. She only knows that Vicky, a tall, blond, 25-year-old newlywed who worked as an account manager and who could calculate a balance sheet or assemble a wardrobe without breaking a sweat, was strangled by her husband one night in November in 2009. Read More...
I don’t believe a toy will solve society’s problems, but finding a doll that looked like me sent the wordless message, ‘You belong’, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan Published: 27 Dec 2023 ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEoKyaqpSerq96wqikaKSZm7KiusOsq7KklWTBsMXS
Television industry'Anyone for dippity-bix?'Classic sitcom is finally returning to the BBC - and it's all thanks to a couple of suburban Australians. Rupert Smith reportsIf you've been anywhere near an Australian, or a gay man, in the past 12 months, you've probably heard about Kath and Kim. It's a sitcom in the tradition of Steptoe and Son and Absolutely Fabulous: a tiny cast of characters, based around a central family relationship, and lethal with satirical edge. Read More...