A book about dieting is almost bound by law to have a picture of a woman on the cover. But Louise Foxcroft’s entertaining and occasionally stomach-churning history of the subject is a revelation about the weight problems of men. Daniel Lambert, who was born in Leicester in 1770, was just over five feet tall and weighed fifty-two stone; when he died, at the age of thirty-nine, he was rolled through the streets in a wheeled coffin to his grave: ‘Corpulency’, it was said at the time, ‘constantly increased until the clogged machinery of life stood still, and this prodigy of Mammon was numbered with the dead.’

Dec 2011

Female Unfriendly

Let Down by Law

What Doesn’t Kill You Hurts Like Hell

Let Us Hope Not

In the End, She Preferred Sartre

Oprah, Di and Hillary

Screen Surrender

Flatlines

The Born Identity

Death & the Orgasm

Dangerous Minds

Death and Taxis

Who Pays?

Feminism Lite

The Fight For Modernity

The State Of Feminism

No Need To Get Heated

Divorced from Reality

Venice, Tequila, Sunsets…

Profits of Sin

Banned, on the Run

Caught in the Web

After Darcy

That Which Must Not Be Named

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