Why Suffragette film starring Carey Mulligan is painfully relevant to today, says Caroline Criado-Perez
'Although women did eventually gain the vote, so much of this film still feels painfully familiar'
'Although women did eventually gain the vote, so much of this film still feels painfully familiar'
Tanya Ronder is the author of some very good theatrical adaptations which have appeared at some very distinguished addresses. But her instinct seems to have deserted her in this, her first stand-alone play.
A debate on what it means to be a man has been raging online this week, after the hashtag #MasculinitySoFragile started trending. But what is it actually about, and is it a good thing? Here's what you told us:
Having just read about the tragic death of 700 pilgrims in the Mina valley, I encountered an acquaintance in the stairwell.
Floating through the patterns of Les Sylphides, the Trocks – the world’s best-loved drag ballet troupe – simper sweetly until something goes terribly wrong. Then they soldier on, while mortification and fury bubble up behind the false eyelashes and fixed smiles.
I am a meat eater, and it does not take me more than a minute to realise that Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow environment secretary Kerry McCarthy is right: meat-eating should be treated like smoking. That doesn’t mean I am going to give up all meat – far from it. But it does mean that I’m able to wade through the mire of ‘militant vegan’ smears suggesting that McCarthy is unable to do her job because of her nutritional choices, and understand that Corbyn’s appointment was actually very astute.
When I first tweeted #MasculinitySoFragile in July I thought had I made it up. I didn’t realize that it had been used by another user in a similar back in 2013. Both of us had decided use it to call out the ways in which masculinity is so often high maintenance and annoying. By August I started using the hashtag to discuss how, within our patriarchal society, men have to acknowledge our sexism and misogyny in order to work toward actually treating women with respect.
Fans rejoice, as JK Rowling has revealed some magical new details with regards the upcoming stage play about The Boy Who Lived, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
Scotland's biggest city prepares to host the art crowd
Pope Francis’s visit this week to the United States has helped cement his reputation as just as much a political leader as a spiritual one. He has tackled head-on some of the most divisive issues in America – from immigration to abortion, and from climate change to the renewal of relations with Cuba. That he was given a platform to do so in Congress makes this all the more notable.
One reason, perhaps, for the bright and chirpy advertising style often used by the payday lenders – cuddly old folk and all – is to distract viewers from the sometimes dismal nature of the business they are in. Dismal and, indeed, sometimes tragic.