4 d. ago New book looks at the terrible history of the brutal Scottish witch trials

Could women be tried as witches in modern day Scotland? One book sets to find out.

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5 d. ago Advertising regulator bans liquid BBLs ads that ‘irresponsibly pressured women into booking’

Advertising Standards Authority bans six adverts over breaches of its rules following investigations

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1 week ago ‘Do you want to show strength here?’: Russia’s ads recruiting Chinese mercenaries

More than 150 Chinese nationals are fighting for Russia in Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said, recruited via videos on social mediaThe videos are across Chinese social media. Some are slickly produced Russian propaganda about being “tough” men; some sound more like influencer advertisements for a working holiday. Others are cobbled-together screenshots by regular citizens about to leave China. But they all have one thing in common: selling the benefits of becoming a Chinese mercenary for Russia.On Tuesday, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, announced that two Chinese nationals had been captured in the eastern Donetsk region and accused Moscow of trying to involve China “directly or indirectly” in the conflict. A day later, he said the men were among at least 155 other Chinese members of Russia’s armed forces. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago 'I'm 53 and my sex life is better than it's ever been': This is the reason why Gen X is having the best sex

From Nicole Kidman's erotic onscreen antics to Gillian Anderson's steamy fantasies book, middle-aged women are getting passionate everywhere you look. Long may it last

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3 w. ago Love, actually: How intimacy survives marriage and motherhood | Saman Shad

The key isn’t chasing some impossible ideal of passion that never fades, but learning to appreciate love in all its evolving formsThe first thing a friend did when I told her the title of my book was laugh. “The Sex Lives of Married Women?” She asked. “You mean The No Sex Lives of Married Women.”I laughed too. She wasn’t wrong – married people aren’t exactly known for their thriving sex lives. And I suspect the only couples reliably having sex must be the ones who have scheduled it into their Google calendars, probably in a shared folder alongside “Bunnings trip” and “remortgage review”. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Kelly Brook says women 'put too much pressure on themselves' to lose weight as she praises her husband Jeremy Parisi for 'celebrating' her figure

Kelly Book has told how women put 'too much pressure' on themselves to lose weight as she opened up on husband Jeremy Parisi 's support of her own body.

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3 w. ago Alessia Russo goals inspire Arsenal to magical Champions League comeback on great night against Real Madrid

Arsenal produce a stunning comeback to book place in Women’s Champions League semi-final against Lyon

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4 w. ago Hidden Portraits: The Untold Stories of Six Women Who Loved Picasso by Sue Roe review – artist as lothario

Françoise Gilot is the most compelling figure in this biography of the painter’s lovers – but you get the feeling she would have loathed this book“No woman leaves a man like me,” Pablo Picasso is supposed to have declared to Françoise Gilot, his partner and the mother of two of his children, in the spring of 1953. The couple had by this point been together for a decade, their first encounter having taken place in 1943 in a black market cafe in Paris (Picasso, who was then 61, had approached the 21-year-old Gilot bearing a bowl of cherries). But now he’d become involved with Jacqueline Roque, the woman with whom he’d go on to spend the final years of his life.What to do about this? Gilot would not confront him. Better simply to call his bluff. “I am very secretive,” she said in an interview in 2016. “I smile and I’m polite, but that doesn’t mean that I will do as I said I will do He thought I would react like all his other women. That was a completely wrong opinion.” The following ye...

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