The Huffington Post NFL domestic violence “We have arrived at a teachable moment in America for both adults and children,” writes Dr Phil McGraw, referring to the recent NFL domestic violence controversy in which a video showed Baltimore Ravens’s Ray Rice knocking out his then-fianceé — now his wife — Janay Palmer, and then dragging her unconscious body out of a hotel elevator. He lists the numbers — every minute in the US, 24 people are harmed by an intimate partner. “That’s 1,440 people an hour. More than 12 million every year,” he writes. Dr Phil ends by wishing that “we'll soon see the NFL take a leadership position” considering the number of players involved in such incidents. The Guardian The party prince “There are three Prince Harrys,” writes Caroline Davies. The first is the army one “with two tours of Afghanistan under his belt”. There’s the royal Harry — “a spare to heir”. “Then there’s the social Harry: pretty rich, very posh and immensely privileged,” notes Davies, adding that the personas get mixed up at times. Now on his 30th birthday, Harry gained control of the inheritance left by his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales — a sum of more than £10 million. “Money is no problem,” Davies says, “but staying out of the tabloids for his partying and finding a meaningful role is.” The New Yorker The plus side While attending the Full Figured Fashion Week in Manhattan, Lizzie Widdicombe noticed how the atmosphere was celebratory, “rather than cutthroat”. She notes how “historically, plus-size apparel has had a conservative look”. But in the past five years, things have begun to change; a change that has resulted in a “democratisation of fashion”. And once in a while, even a single blog can spark a movement as Gabi Gregg did in 2011 when she went on “a quest” to find a bikini her size. When she found one, she posted a picture and called it a “fatkini”. This sparked a movement which, in turn, forced retailers to make plus-size bikinis.
