Undercurrents
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Society
A choice too far
- 20 September 2007
- 7 comments
While we are naturally appalled by reports of female genital mutilation in other cultures, cosmetic vaginal surgeries continue in the UK and US
Society
The McCann case is all in our minds
- 13 September 2007
- 20 comments
Now the idea that "the parents might have done it" has been officially introduced, the speculation has gone stratospheric
Society
The dark world of lads' mags
- 23 August 2007
- 3 comments
The worst crime of lad culture was it took old-fashioned chauvinism and served it up in the same format
International Politics
Nancy's wise counsel
- 09 August 2007
- 1 comment
We are entering the era of the political wife who hears all the criticism of herself and her actions - and goes ahead and acts anyway
Society
Reader, don't marry him
- 12 July 2007
- 2 comments
No one ever quite managed to popularise the idea that marriage itself is unfeminist
North America
A literary fraud who is not a fake
- 28 June 2007
How a writer's value has plummeted just because its author wasn't actually pimped out as a child
Society
No one talks of "crying burglary"
- 14 June 2007
- 3 comments
There is no other crime in which a victim is so widely disbelieved as rape
Society
The arithmetic of equality
- 04 June 2007
- 1 comment
Behind all the talk of men in crisis there are increasing signs that women's toehold is actually slipping
Society
The hidden burden on young shoulders
- 21 May 2007
The appalling plight of Britain's child carers
Society
Yes, speeding is a "real" crime
- 07 May 2007
- 3 comments
Two very personal reasons as to why you shouldn't speed
