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The underwear backlash: why Seville is telling rowdy tourists to get dressed

Name: The invasion of Seville.Age: Seville (Sevilla), the beautiful city in Andalucía, is ancient, dating back approximately 2,200 years. The latest invasion is relatively recent.We’re not talking about the Islamic conquest of 711, then? Nor its ransacking by Vikings...

S5 E2: Shirley Ballas, dancer

This week, Grace heads out of her kitchen and into the home of dance legend Shirley Ballas to cha-cha-chat all things Comfort Eating. Shirley’s become TV royalty as head judge on the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing, but she’d...

Full-time children: the twentysomethings who may never grow up

Name: Full-time children.Age: 21 and up.Appearance: Coming to a doorstep near you.What kind of job is “full-time child”? Just what it sounds like: being someone’s child, the whole time.How does one get into that sort of game? By default.By...

Weekend: Joan Collins on love, loss and lust at 90, and Marina Hyde on Rishi’s ‘longtermism’

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$5,600 knickers: are these the world’s most expensive underpants?

Name: The world’s most expensive knickers.Cost: $5,600 (about £4,600).Appearance: A tiny genital glitter ball that costs as much as a cheap secondhand car.The optimist in me hopes you have misplaced a comma. Sadly not. The Italian fashion brand Miu...

The Hollywood Walk of Shame: why the LA landmark is the world’s worst tourist attraction

Name: The Hollywood Walk of Fame.Age: 63.Appearance: Mysterious, lifesize, trivia-based board game.What is it? A series of stars, rendered in terrazzo and brass, embedded in the pavement along 15 blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of intersecting Vine...

Low birth rate linked to fear about the future | Letter

Polly Toynbee’s challenge to the theory presented by the MP Miriam Cates at the National Conservatism conference, that a low UK birthrate is an outcome of “cultural Marxism”, is fair enough as far as it goes (The great British...

The domestic bliss of bringing up baby | Letter

Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett rightly recognises that there is a significant change going on in terms of sharing the upbringing of children (Can we call time on the ‘doesband’ doing ‘daddy day care’? Fathers are way past that, 19 May)....

Lose the shoes! It’s time to get ready for Barefoot-Boy Summer

Name: Bare feet.Age: The oldest shoes ever found are estimated to be about 9,000 years old, so older than that. Bare feet have been around since there have been people with feet – or since Adam and Eve.Why are...

Readers reply: why do Americans use the term ‘Victorian’?

Why do Americans use the term “Victorian”? Victoria came to the British throne in 1837, more than 60 years after the US declared independence. Tim Howell, NewquaySend new questions to [email protected] replyOne answer is: they do and they don’t....

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