Month: October 2023
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I Left my Heart in San Francisco
At Walnut Creek BART Station San Francisco is one of my favourite places to visit. California reminds us that “America” is not a homogeneous entity, and San Francisco revels in mould-breaking. It is the epicentre not just of tolerance but of the celebration of creative individuality, difference and diversity. In San Francisco, you can be…
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Female Spaces
Five years ago, Andrew Gilligan – he of the “sexed up” dossier about Iraq – wrote a piece for the Sunday Times about sexual assaults in public swimming pools. The majority of sexual assaults (120) in swimming pools occurred in unisex changing rooms, with only 14 occurring in single sex changing rooms and 46 in…
Mrs Benn 