Mature adults are heteronormatively gendered. One of the key things a child must grow up into is a man or a woman, so to be a mature adult means to identify unambiguously as one or the other […]

And he wasn't an ordinary bridger, Tuck remembers, he was said to be one of the best bridge-masters on Pomperoy.

One expression above all others has become associated with the invasion of Iraq – shock and awe. Developed at the Pentagon in the mid-1990s, shock and awe was a doctrine designed to leave the enemy so demoralised and disoriented that its will to resist crumbled. In popular parlance it has come to mean the application of overwhelming force, the effective obliteration of the enemy, and for many the term shock and awe has come to epitomise the crudeness of the American assault on Iraq.

So, she created a t-shirt that says, “Proud member of the Snovid survival club.”