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Women we love International WOMEN’S DAY 2025 When Gisèle Pelicot said “shame must change sides”, she struck on something that has occupied my thoughts day in, day out for most of my adult life. It is this: Crimes involving violence against women, and particularly those involving sexual violence, do something more than violate a woman’s safety and dignity. They inject her with a burning shame that does not belong to her. As someone who has lived with this feeling my whole life, let me tell you, carrying shame that is not yours to carry is International WOMEN’S DAY 2025 incredibly confusing. It is harmful. It is heavy. It weighs us down and it keeps us silent and small and scared. Yet Gisèle – a 72-year-old woman from regional France –…

it’s a rare thing to see a movie star utterly disappear into a role. In Conclave, Isabella Rossellini does exactly that. With a largely silent, self-effacing performance, the 72-year-old actor and model pulls off a remarkable vanishing act as Sister Agnes, a stoic matron who manages the legion of nuns that serve the cardinals as they struggle to elect a new pope. The sole woman in an A-list ensemble led by Ralph Fiennes, Rossellini’s character bustles through backrooms of the Vatican, a monochrome cipher in a sea of scarlet men. On paper, it’s a small part, with almost no dialogue and less than eight minutes of screen time. But as a nun who knows too much, Sister Agnes is a stealth weapon hiding in plain sight. A spy in the…

I’m 20 years old, cripplingly hungover and curled up on the couch in my disastrously mould-prone Wellington sharehouse. Like every other anxiety-filled Sunday, I’m feeling sorry for myself. I’m contemplating whether I’ll ever find a boyfriend in this godforsaken city – spoiler alert, I won’t – when my housemate bursts into the lounge room. Wordlessly, she thrusts her phone screen towards me, awaiting my reaction. As my eyes dart across the screen, taking in the bold orange text, my sleep-deprived (and probably alcoholically poisoned) body is filled with sudden adrenaline: Tinder, the buzzy American dating app, has finally launched in New Zealand. Like most single people who came of age as dating apps entered the world, I initially had mixed feelings about using an ‘app’ to find people to date.…

1 Catalonia, Spain Gastronomic tour specialist Mediterranean Food Journeys has launched a selection of cookery retreats in Costa Brava, coinciding with Catalonia’s year as the World Region of Gastronomy. They’re hosted at the Torre Ronsat estate, a Catalan farmhouse near Girona. Options include weekend, half-week and full-week courses encompassing a range of Mediterranean cuisines. When not crafting pasta or paella, guests can hike the pine-wreathed coast, visit vineyards and pop into bakeries to enjoy magdalenas (Spanish muffins) fresh from the oven. mediterraneanfoodjourneys.com 2 NEW YORK STATE, US Stretching from Cooperstown to Corning, the New York Susquehanna Basin Water Trail is a 190-mile route along the Chemung and Susquehanna Rivers. It’s set to launch in May, with paddling segments accessible along the trail taking in red-brick riverside towns and lush farmland.…

When the Debut arrived on the market many years ago, it represented both the bottom rung of the Pro-Ject range and pretty much the cheapest fully functional turntable on the market. It’s a mark of how much of a journey it has undergone that not only is it far from the most affordable model that the company makes, but those below it now have tiers of their own. The T1 models replaced the Essential range (which in turn was the first real sub-Debut series Pro-Ject made) in 2020 and the company has now updated the three models to become the T1 EVO family. These models all share the same basic platform, which is recognisably similar to the original T1. This is still a belt-driven, unsuspended turntable that, unusually for Pro-Ject,…

On March 19, 2025, the European Union fired a double-barreled salvo at two of America’s tech titans, charging Alphabet’s Google with violating its landmark Digital Markets Act (DMA) and ordering Apple to loosen its grip on iPhone and iPad ecosystems. Reported by Reuters, this escalation marks a pivotal moment in the EU’s ongoing crusade to tame Big Tech, spotlighting Google’s search and app store practices while pressing Apple to let rivals into its walled garden. For tech enthusiasts and everyday users, it’s a clash of giants with stakes that could reshape how we interact with the digital world. The European Commission’s actions—two charges against Google and a directive for Apple—signal a tougher stance under the DMA, a 2023 law designed to curb the dominance of tech gatekeepers. With fines looming…