The ObserverMedical researchWrinkled skin, painful muscles, aching joints – collagen is being marketed by the supplement industry as the answer to many of the problems of ageing
Of all the 20,000 or so different proteins in the human body, there is one that dominates more than any other. Without it, our cells would simply collapse in on themselves, our skeleton and blood vessels would disintegrate and we would be little more than blobs of shapeless tissues. Read More...
The ObserverRon DeSantis This article is more than 7 months oldItalian towns claim Ron DeSantis as one of their own as Republican race heats upThis article is more than 7 months oldAll eight great-grandparents of the White House hopeful, eager to restrict immigrants’ rights, came from the south of Italy
DeSantis’s limp start to 2024 race delights Trump but battle is not over If Luigia Colucci, one of Ron DeSantis’s Italian great-grandmothers, tried to emigrate to the US today, she most likely couldn’t meet current standards to enter the country – the same standards that her great-grandson haspromised to further restrict if elected to the White House. Read More...
True crime booksReviewWhy would anyone kill a model citizen of austerity Britain? Blake Morrison investigatesIt was a passing driver who spotted the woman's shoe lying by the road. Times were hard in Britain in 1946 and good shoes unaffordable; he hoped to locate the matching shoe and that the pair would fit his wife. But the other shoe, when he found it, was attached to a woman's body. She lay half-hidden in the hedgerow, with her stocking torn and her coat rucked up. Read More...
