Sophie Wessex admits she’s ‘gone to some very dark places’ after hearing ‘terrible stories’ from survivors of sexual violence and has ‘wept for them’ Countess of Wessex appeared during a London School of Economics webinar Said hearing stories of sexual violence survivors has taken her to ‘dark places’ Sophie – whose 56th birthday is today … Read more
Tracee Ellis Ross admits she was ‘so shy, and so afraid’ of singing in public when she was a girl that she went to the headmistress’s office at her Swiss boarding school and begged to be excused from performing in a play. ‘I said I thought it was unfair I was being asked to sing,’ … Read more
Media coverage of poor health is littered with defiant military metaphors. Individual battles are fought against illness; wars are launched against diseases; medicines are weaponised and locked on target. ‘We are undefeatable,’ declares one TV advert for a campaign run by the charity Activity Alliance. Use of martial language is particularly common in the coronavirus … Read more