The permanent melting of sea ice in the Arctic was predicted by climate change models, but it wasn't supposed to happen for decades.
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Theater Review: The Leningrad Siege at Wilton’s Music Hall
"The menopause is irreversible, just like history," Priscilla proclaims. But is that true?
Read More »Theater Review: Divorced Beheaded Died at the Jermyn Street Theatre
You'll remember Henry's wives: Catherine's the solemn, humorless one; Anne's all sex and temper; Jane's all simper and stupidity.
Read More »Friday Femmes Fatales No 47 (Women Bloggers)
Domestic violence, street abuse, and World Cup prostitution. But it does get more cheerful...
Read More »Book Review: Female Caligula: Ranavalona – The Mad Queen of Madagascar by Keith Laidler
Ranavalona reigned from 1828 to 1861, dying peacefully in her bed of old age, having kept her country independent.
Read More »Theater Review: The RSC’s As You Like It
Lia Williams is entirely up to the challenge of Rosalind.
Read More »A Landmark Moment: The Web Overtakes TV in Britain
For centuries, people made their own entertainment, rather than passively absorbing it. The future is starting to look like the past.
Read More »Theater Review: The Odyssey: A Trip Based on Homer’s Epic
In this seductively psychedelic production, the gods deliver the great king into the not-so-tender hands of a British immigration detention centre.
Read More »Theater Review: The Exonerated
As an evening of politics that exposes the intellectual and moral poverty of the American judicial system, it can't be faulted.
Read More »Cultural Relativism ‘Is Threatening Hard-Won Human Rights’
In England, a public meeting organised by the Green Party is told that vulnerable people, communities and nations are being left without support.
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