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Liverpool This article is more than 6 years oldRonnie Moran, Liverpool captain and boot room legend, dies aged 83This article is more than 6 years old Tributes pour in for Moran, also known as Mr Liverpool Member of the Anfield boot room for more than three decadesRonnie Moran, also known as Mr Liverpool for his outstanding contribution to the club’s success for almost 50 years, has died aged 83. [Read More]

The ObserverTheatreReviewYork Theatre Royal, and touring Jessica Kaur captivates as a talented teenage runner trying to escape her father’s expectations and violence in a vivid, if overlong production Run, Rebel is the final production in a four-year project that has seen adaptations of award-winning novels by Malorie Blackman (Noughts and Crosses), Alex Wheatle (Crongton Knights) and Zana Fraillon (The Bone Sparrow). “The goal has been to inspire an expansion and diversification of the range of work that is made and programmed for young adults and secondary-school age children,” says Esther Richardson, artistic director of Pilot Theatre (one of five companies that make up the consortium of producers: the others are Mercury theatre, Colchester; Belgrade theatre, Coventry; Derby theatre and York Theatre Royal). [Read More]

Food in seasonSeasonal foodSeasonal food: parsnipsIt's the sweetest thing. Our guide to buying, storing, cooking and eating parsnipsUK parsnip season. Photograph: guardian.co.ukThe root of pastinaca sativa is arguably the king of the roots, although the potato has made wholesale sallies into an empire which began with the ancient Greeks and held Europe in thrall throughout the middle ages. Taking less time to cook that the turnip or carrot, its starchy sweetness marked it out in days of yore as an important staple vegetable used in cakes as well as everyday savoury cooking. [Read More]

First thoughtsEvangelical Christianity This article is more than 5 years oldThis Christmas, beware evangelical Christians bearing giftsThis article is more than 5 years oldPolly ToynbeeThe Samaritan’s Purse charity sends gift boxes to children in Muslim countries. They contain a pernicious, hidden agendaAll over the country, Operation Christmas Child is up and running again. The scheme urges people to pack up a shoebox with toys, pens, notebooks and treats for a poor child. [Read More]

The state of menRaceAsian American masculinity has been linked to the model minority myth and a hierarchy of racist stereotypes For a while, though rarely now as I get older, white women used to tell me I was “good-looking for an Asian”. I used to believe it myself. Until I moved to Korea when I was 23, visiting for the first time since my adoption at age two, I dated only white women. [Read More]

Housing by numbersHousing Network This article is more than 6 years oldHomeless women are even more vulnerable than homeless menThis article is more than 6 years oldChannel 4 programme shows more women are becoming homeless and being treated far worse on the streets and by councils Rough sleeping has doubled in the past five years, with increasing numbers of women: women who are often existing or expectant mothers, fleeing violence, or who have disabilities or health problems. [Read More]

Anne Heche This article is more than 1 year old‘I did not identify as a lesbian’: Anne Heche reflects on Ellen DeGeneres in upcoming memoirThis article is more than 1 year oldThe late actor opens up about her relationship with DeGeneres in Call Me Anne, a memoir finished shortly before her death, to be released in January In a memoir Anne Heche worked on over the past year, the late actor shared candid thoughts on her relationship with Ellen DeGeneres in the late 1990s, when they were among Hollywood’s first openly gay couples. [Read More]

TV reviewAutismReviewChris Packham gives autistic people the chance to make a film about their life, and the results are deeply moving. It’s a charming, powerful watch that’s hugely intimate ‘What I see is different,” says Chris Packham as he introduces Inside Our Autistic Minds (BBC Two). The naturalist is in his natural habitat, a woodland scene, which looks lush and peaceful but is, Packham explains, a lot for him to take, because he sees not just a vista of nice trees but all the connections between them, the names of all the species, their possible animal and insect inhabitants. [Read More]

Instagram mode Kaylen Ward, AKA the Naked Philanthropist, sends nude photographs of herself to anyone who donates more than $10 to one of her chosen charities assisting the Australian bushfire crisis. Photograph: TwitterInstagram mode Kaylen Ward, AKA the Naked Philanthropist, sends nude photographs of herself to anyone who donates more than $10 to one of her chosen charities assisting the Australian bushfire crisis. Photograph: TwitterBushfires This article is more than 4 years oldInstagram model raises $700,000 for Australia fires with nude photos before account deletedThis article is more than 4 years old‘Naked Philanthropist’ Kaylen Ward inspires other sex workers to offer photos in exchange for donations to bushfire relief [Read More]

ITV plc This article is more than 12 years oldMidsomer Murders co-creator to step down at end of current seriesThis article is more than 12 years oldBrian True-May had been reinstated by TV company after apologising for saying show was 'last bastion of Englishness'The co-creator of Midsomer Murders, Brian True-May, is to step down from his role at the end of the current series after he sparked a race row by suggesting there was no place in the programme for ethnic minorities. [Read More]