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“Ditch the witch,” protesters chanted at Julia Gillard, Australia’s first and only female prime ­minister. Nancy Pelosi, the first female speaker of the House of Representatives, was depicted as a witch in ads run by a political opponent, who laughed off his tactics. Elsewhere, T-shirts were printed with her face and a witchy “I’ll get you, my pretty” threat.

The drumbeat of war is banging ominously in the Middle East, but where is the sound of peace? Where is the Israeli-Palestinian peace process? Peace cannot be silent – it must be a visible, vocal presence, urging a just and lasting settlement.

Life isn’t always a tightrope, but most of us have to walk one at some stage, hopefully with a balancing pole between our hands and the other side within sight. But what if we start to teeter on the high wire? At that point, a safety net becomes a lifesaver.

/PRNewswire/ -- As Daisy Alpert fLorin explains, "novelists love to tell the story of outsiders, and in a sense, everyone's an outsider in college. No matter...

“When I said I was standing for office my mum asked if I’d considered being an estate agent instead,” British MP Stella Creasy told a Dublin audience this week. While her words raised a laugh, they were also revealing: political life can be hellish.