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Why Mumsnet and social media are important new forums for feminism

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WomenMuch has recently been written about young, media-savvy, 'fourth-wave' feminism. But there's a quieter, wider revolution bubbling up beneath, and it's led by mothersWhere should a 20-something feminist go when faced with a online barrage of rape and death threats? Unsurprisingly, Laura Bates turned to an anonymous talkboard to ask for help soon after she founded the Everyday Sexism Project 18 months ago. Less predictably, perhaps, the childless campaigner chose to do so on parenting website Mumsnet. Read More...

'Harder, faster, louder': how drone-pilot drama Grounded shook the world | Theatre

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Full throttle ... Lucy Ellinson in Grounded in 2013. Photograph: Murdo Macleod/The GuardianGeorge Brant’s electric monologue Grounded was one of the first plays to explore a new form of war. The playwright, actor Lucy Ellinson and director Christopher Haydon recall creating a fringe smash that channelled Top Gun by Matt TruemanGrainy aerial footage is part of the lexicon of war now: pixelated people and flashes of bright white light. We have come to accept the idea of drone warfare – death delivered by remote control – as almost quotidian. Read More...

Heroin users start at eight. It's 5 a bag. We'll need body bags, too | Special reports

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So far this year 108 addicts have died on the streets of Glasgow. The 107th was a Minister's son. John Sweeney reports Drugs in Britain: special report Macduff Street's finest hung out of the top-floor window of number 53 in a rundown part of Glasgow as the Government Minister's son left number 49 in a black body bag. A taxi drove up the street, past the houses as blank and terrible as faces without eyesockets, their windows blinded by metal sheets, past the reinforced steel doors, past the litter of plastic cones and bags and the broken Hoover, past the shards of shattered glass, past the human excrement and the syringe needles, past the grafitti backing the IRA, and a pitifully thin pasty-faced wreckage of a man came out. Read More...