Pentagon officials rang up nearly $1m at casinos without serious reprisal, a report by the department’s inspector general has revealed. Photograph: AlamyPentagon officials rang up nearly $1m at casinos without serious reprisal, a report by the department’s inspector general has revealed. Photograph: AlamyUS defence spending This article is more than 7 years oldPentagon officials allowed government spending at strip clubs and casinosThis article is more than 7 years oldDefense department officials did not adequately discipline subordinates who were found using government charge cards on ‘adult entertainment’, report finds
Work-life balanceFar from embracing the school run, most men are still trapped by rigid cultural notions of being strong, dominant and successful. Is it leading to an epidemic of unhappiness similar to the one felt by Betty Friedan’s 50s housewives?
Back in the 90s, it was all going to be so different. Not for our generation the lopsided approach of our parents, with their quaint postwar notions of father-breadwinners and mother-homemakers.
Eloise Parry’s mother on the death of her daughter after taking diet pills GuardianHealth This article is more than 8 years oldWoman died after accidental overdose of highly toxic diet pillsThis article is more than 8 years oldCoroner will write to government calling for investigation into industrial chemical DNP, which has been linked to several deaths in UK
A size-10 university student who was obsessed with losing weight died of an accidental overdose after taking diet pills that contained a highly toxic substance, a coroner has ruled.
Arts preview 2014Adrienne TruscottInterviewAdrienne Truscott: the naked comicEmma BrockesShe performs semi-nude and asks audiences: 'Ever been raped?' Are you ready for this brash New Yorker's brand of polemic standup?Adrienne Truscott apologises to me before our meeting: the video she sent of her standup routine invites a certain awkwardness when encountering her in person. In the five-minute clip she is outrageous, raucous and viciously funny. She is also naked from the waist down.
BooksPhilip Hensher has lamented the decline of pen and paper in the age of email. In a blind test, we gave him some celebrity handwriting and asked him to tell us what it reveals. (Answers below.)1. It looks as if this person either hasn't been taught how to write, or has forgotten all about it – maybe someone under 30. The few ornamental features – the looping f – have been put together on the writer's own initiative.
Jay Rayner on restaurantsFoodReviewHigh prices and a peppercorn overload that makes your lips vibrate should be a deterrent. But Duck & Rice is a gem
90 Berwick Street, London W1 (020 3327 7888). Meal for two, including drinks and service, £110
For a moment I didn’t want to step inside Alan Yau’s new “Chinese gastropub”. I wanted to treat it like that beautiful girl I had the hots for in my first year at university.
FA CupKyrell Lisbie takes on his father Kevin’s former club Charlton on Sunday, hoping eighth-tier Cray Valley can spring a huge shock
‘I was so excited,” says Kyrell Lisbie, as he comes to terms with the boundless magic of the FA Cup. “I said to my dad prior: ‘Imagine getting Charlton away’ – and we did. I couldn’t believe it.” For the Cray Valley Paper Mills forward Sunday’s tie is a dream come true for a variety of reasons.
PublishingObituaryLeo Cooper obituaryPublisher of military history books and husband of Jilly CooperLeo Cooper, who has died aged 79 after suffering from Parkinson's disease, was a publisher with a zeal for military history, who also enjoyed some notoriety as the husband of the novelist Jilly Cooper.
Leo's hospitality was out of all proportion to the size of his establishment. Every day, for 20-odd years, he kept open house at his "branch office"
Word of Mouth blogFoodNew York embraces the full English breakfastThe city which lays claim to being the breakfast capital of the world is finally waking up to the oleaginous joys of the full EnglishAccording to New York Magazine the full English breakfast is taking their city by storm. The great British fry-up, fuel of wiry miners, noble shipyard riveters, clear eyed young Spitfire pilots and cheeky cock-er-ney cabbies has crossed the pond and, according to the article colonised "
Architecture This article is more than 5 years oldRobert Venturi: the bad-taste architect who took a sledgehammer to modernismThis article is more than 5 years oldOliver WainwrightWith the maxim ‘less is a bore’, the larger-than-life architect, who has died aged 93, brought history and hilarity to the staid world of monochrome tastefulness
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, the seminal 1966 book by Robert Venturi, who has died aged 93, has always stuck out of my bookshelf.