Daily reading

* The good – MPs suggest that the age of starting driving on the roads be lifted to 18:

Young male drivers are now the biggest killer of young women in the UK, according to the report from the transport select committee. They are also a danger to themselves: more than three times as many are killed as young female drivers, although they are more likely to pass the driving test.

* The bad – another leak from the quake-hit Japanese nuclear power plant, which may have been built on a fault line!

* The informative – a story about a Portugese woman who fooled everyone by dressing as a man for two decades – amazing how easy this is in societies with rigid gender divides – shows you how much gender is performative.

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