The broadcaster borrowed this flea market top from her cousin. It has since survived 10 house moves and had two TV outings, a decade apart

I nicked this top off my cousin, Naima, when I was 18. She bought it at a flea market in New York, but it’s originally from Victoria’s Secret. I love the straps that cross at the back; it’s simple, but very chic.

I first wore it on Popworld [the Channel 4 music show Oliver co-presented from 2001 to 2006] with a very short skirt. We didn’t have any dressing guidelines – it was the early 00s, it was absolute chaos! We did have a stylist, but I didn’t enjoy working with them because I wanted to wear secondhand clothes.

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On Broadway, there wasn’t an empty seat in the house – and we finally saw how compelling stories of victimhood can be

It comes around intermittently every few years; a show on Broadway that reminds us why theatre beats every other medium hands down and almost justifies the cost of the tickets. So it was last night, walking down 45th Street in New York past foyers sparse with patrons, to something as close to a mob scene as a person with one eye on their phone for the babysitter can get.

Beneath the marquee, which featured a blown-up image of the actor Jodie Comer, women posed with each other for photos. It was like a revival tent meeting for affluent middle-age lesbians, young women attending alone, a handful of gay men and, I would hazard, approximately 27 enlightened straight ones. “Our people have gone mad for this,” said the friend I was with, and we repaired to our seats feeling vaguely hysterical.

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Dalia Stasevska and Marin Alsop among 10 women conducting in 2023 season as festival moves towards gender equality

For the first time in its history the BBC Proms season will be opened and closed by female conductors, as the festival moves towards gender equality.

The opening and closing nights will be led by Dalia Stasevska and Marin Alsop respectively, two of 10 women conducting concerts this year, three making their Proms debut.

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George Culmer says ‘unacceptable behaviour will not be tolerated’ after last year’s comments about CEO Amanda Blanc

Aviva’s chairman has warned that he will not tolerate disrespectful behaviour from shareholders at its upcoming annual meeting, as the insurer tries avoid a repeat of last year’s event when misogynistic comments were targeted at its chief executive.

George Culmer has cautioned investors that “unacceptable behaviour will not be tolerated” at next month’s meeting after sexist comments were made towards Amanda Blanc last May.

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Making men share responsibility for preventing unwanted pregnancy would have big implications – if it ever happens

The arrival of a male contraceptive pill is imminent. Scientists at Washington State University have identified the gene responsible for normal sperm production, and a way to block it. Meanwhile, at Weill Cornell Medicine earlier this year, a separate team closed in on a short-term, two-hour sperm blocker that met the same criteria: that it was reversible, and that it didn’t work by hormonal interference.

It’s a bit like the unveiling of a hoverboard: yes, sure, amazing, what a frontier technology, how wonderful to see the future airborne. On the other hand, guys, you’ve been talking about this for so long that it feels dated before it’s even hit the market.

Zoe Williams is a Guardian columnist

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Double Olympic gold-winning athlete describes lethargy, brain fog, night sweats and body aches

Dame Kelly Holmes has said the symptoms of perimenopause are “killing” her, with lethargy, brain fog, night sweats and body aches making her feel she is no longer in tune with her body.

The double Olympic gold-winning athlete said the hormonal changes that characterise the transitional period before the menopause had left her feeling “out of control all the time” and in constant pain.

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Anthony Comstock’s crusade against women gained him the moniker of ‘moral eunuch’. Today’s anti-choice zealots are following in his footsteps

Anthony Comstock thought that his fellow soldiers in the civil war talked about sex too much. When he signed up to serve for the Union in 1863, he saw soldiers behaving the way soldiers tend to do: they drank, and cursed, and made dirty jokes. This spectacle so scandalized Comstock’s Christian morality that he devoted the rest of his life – both in public crusades and in his position as inspector of the US Postal Service – to performing what he called “weeding in God’s garden”.

He rallied against women’s suffrage, secured the arrest and prosecution of his political enemies, and toured colleges and churches, giving speeches meant to whip his audience into a censorial frenzy. One of his targets, a New York abortion provider called Madame Restell, committed suicide after being entrapped and arrested by Comstock, who had posed as a husband seeking birth control pills. He sent others to jail for selling sex toys, or marketing abortion medications, or preaching free love. In short, Comstock became an anti-“obscenity” advocate: one of the most ideological and extreme enforcers of public morality in the nation’s history.

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After a car crash, Morgan knew she was exactly the same person – she just couldn’t walk. But she had to convince everyone else. She explains how she became a forthright campaigner and a successful TV presenter

‘Pick your battles,” Sophie Morgan says, dressed all in black, looking incongruously gorgeous, like she belongs in a sonnet or a music video, not in the Guardian offices (no offence, colleagues). “Pick any battle.”

The latest battle she has picked is with airlines, who treat disabled passengers shockingly badly. Wheelchairs get lost and broken, people get left on planes for hours waiting for help to disembark, basic human dignities are disregarded. “What’s happening here is not a bunch of disgruntled holidaymakers whose luggage is lost,” she says. “It feels like an assault.” It doesn’t mean she didn’t wrestle with it as an issue: “Part of me thought, really, why are we campaigning for flights, when flying’s so bad anyway, in a climate crisis? When we’re in a cost of living crisis where disabled people are struggling to access anything, let alone holidays? But it does feel, when you’re us, like no one’s listening.” I get a flash of Morgan’s Loose Women persona – funny, knowing, redoubtable.

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Exclusive: Melissa Green, CEO of the organisation, says it won’t be part of ‘toxic’ debate on trans membership

The Women’s Institute will continue to “celebrate” the lives of the transgender women enriching its membership, the head of the organisation said on Tuesday, following reports that it was facing a bid to overturn inclusive policy.

Melissa Green, CEO of the the National Federation of Women’s Institutes (NFWI), said the organisation did not want to enter into a “toxic and divisive” row that sought to sow discord among women, but instead foster sensible discourse and reflect the lives of all its members – including those that are transgender.

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