Lauren BacallShe slouched on to screens in the 1940s, a new kind of female star: sexy, smart, able to give as good as she got. Sixty years on, Lauren Bacall is still making films - but it is those early lines and angled looks that cast her for ever as an icon. Susie Mackenzie meets her.At the Venice film festival last September, Lauren Bacall made what some might think of as a mistake. Read More...
The ObserverGame of Thrones This article is more than 10 years oldThe real reason men should keep their legs togetherThis article is more than 10 years oldBarbara EllenRichard Madden of Game of Thrones has been castigated for taking up too much room. It's not just the space thing, thoughLet me begin by hoping that all men out there are sitting comfortably. I have to say that because I never realised until last week that so many of you have such major difficulties doing something as simple as sitting. Read More...
BooksDonald Trump. North Korea. Hurricanes. Neoliberalism. Is there any hope of a better world? Yes, but we have to come together to tell a new, kinder story explaining who we are, and how we should live
Is it reasonable to hope for a better world? Study the cruelty and indifference of governments, the disarray of opposition parties, the apparently inexorable slide towards climate breakdown, the renewed threat of nuclear war, and the answer appears to be no. Read More...
