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Me and my breasts: 100 women reveal all

How do you feel about your breasts? One photographer asked 100 women to bare all The shocking thing about Laura Dodsworths pictures of 100 womens breasts isnt the flesh on show, or the many shapes and sizes, but the realisation that images of unairbrushed, non-uniform breasts seem to be so rare. We see images of

Narnia books attacked as racist and sexist | UK news

The Whitbread prize-winning children's writer Philip Pullman has dismissed his best-selling predecessor CS Lewis as "blatantly racist" and "monumentally disparaging of women". His wholesale attack on the author of the Narnia books, which have been among the most beloved stories in children's literature for 50 years, came at the Guardian Hay festival which reaches the

U2 become stars after Live Aid

Like so many televised concerts, it looked better on the telly than it did live. But I didn't find that out until the following day. Returning home from Live Aid, I was relieved to find three E240 VHS cassettes excitably Letrasetted a week previously on the kitchen table. Beside them was a note

We are not special. Be prepared, my mother-in-law tells me from Gaza. Then comes the terrible

Last time I visited from Australia, Ibtisam remained calm as I trembled through an Israeli attack. This time it is very different We are not special, Ibtisam, my mother-in-law says, and it is as if I am beside her, trembling, while she calmly pours the summakiya into the plates. The smell of it brings some

How Val McDermid met Jo Sharp: I Googled her to make sure she was a real person

Crime writer McDermid, 67, kept seeing geography professor Sharp, 53, at literary events. They eventually had a drink at the bar in 2013 and now live together in Edinburgh In February 2013, crime writer Val McDermid was invited to speak at the University of Oxford. It was at my old college of St Hildas, she