Good morning from snowbound London (and by 'bound' I mean 'sprinkled'). Here is THE NEWS....
Never mind all that war and economic crap, we've got a new Timelord!
This weekend Doctor Who Confidential revealed (in an unnecessarily agonising and drawn-out process) that David Tennant will regenerate into Matt Smith, a relatively unknown actor who is, at 26, the youngest ever actor to take on the challenge.
According to Matthew Sweet (cultural commentator and broadcaster), Matt Smith also "looks like someone who could have been in Duran Duran":
"Matt Smith has got a fascinating face. It's long and bony, with a commanding jaw... I suspect he might be a more sensual character than David Tennant, who had no kind of dangerous sexuality about him. There's something Byronic about Matt Smith - he's got the lips for it."
Jeez, get a room already.
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The BBC interviewed Jo Swinson, MP for East Dunbartonshire, about being a Parliamentarian at 28:
"Sometimes I think I'm pigeonholed. It still amazes me what excuses people use to bring up my age.
"Once I was asking about the minimum wage for young people and a government minister joked that I was interested because I was one of them.
"Another time I was talking about the desperate unpopularity of the poll tax in Scotland. A Tory said that, surely, I was too young to remember."
The BBC also pooh-poohed the idea of detoxing, advising us to eat healthily and get lots of sleep instead. Well, if you insist.
The Sun asked if Kate Moss was pregnant, based on a series of photographs showing her sporting A MASSIVE PREGNANCY BUMP (or, for most people "a stomach"). In the photographs Kate is drinking beer and smoking cigarettes. I'm erring on the side of "no, perhaps she had a meal".
Bittersweet: an American woman found a winning lottery ticket in her dead husband's pockets.
The Independent told the story of a woman, Reem al-Naraib, raising her family in the war zone of the Gaza Strip:
"We sleep in the mornings, and we stay awake at night because the Israelis double their bombing targets at night, and we use the telephone for news of friends and neighbours. And that's our life now.
"We hear the bombing, we hear the ambulances, we look out of the window and we see smoke, but we don't know where it is. We want to hear about the news, but there is no news. Even the neighbours have no news. Each has closed his door. It's a war - really a war. We don't know what is happening."
The Telegraph reported that fatter women tend to have less sex:
"Researchers found that almost 60 per cent of ladies who are a size eight have had sex in the past week, compared to 50 per cent of size 12 women."
(Curious that Ben Leach refers to the size eights as 'ladies', whereas the size 12s are just 'women'.)
Tracey Cox, a sex and relationships expert, said: "Sex is about what's happening on the inside, not how we look on the outside, but society definitely dictates that slim is attractive. So slimmer people do tend to feel more sexually confident."
If this news makes you want to tear out of the door for a 20 mile jog, or fire up the old exercise bike, The Independent has put together a top 10 of women's trainers.
Unfortunately, the commenters don't agree. 'Seriously annoyed' said:
Are you kidding?! I can't imagine you would recommend women actually wear/exercise in any of those, unless you want them to suffer from twisted ankles, sprained knees or shin splints. This just illustrates how women in this country are not encouraged to do actual exercise, because it may make their "faces go all red" or seem "too aggressive". Why don't you focus on foot pieces you actually know anything about rather than patronizing us with descriptions like "sole is sturdy but flexible, providing support and moveability, while the airy outer layer allows feet to breathe", which would describe almost any appropriate "trainer".
