Philobiblon

… if you were thinking “oh I must but the Observer on the Weekend for its new “classy” women’s magazine, you’re probably going to be disappointed: the promotional front page consists of an apparently naked model with a strategically placed expensive handbag, with a body shape unlike that of any real woman you’ve ever seen. And the subject? Body hair.

And more depressing news from Australia, in the wholly political campaign against RU-486, the abortion-inducing drug. The religiously inspired campaigners are using the excuse of medical complications – of course these are possible, but then I believe there are the odd few with pregnancy too.