Our mental image of the human body is largely determined by Western biomedicine – a picture built from dissection, diagrams, x-rays and various other scans. But this is hardly the only way of visualising the human body – and not necessarily the “correct” one. Suzanne Newcome walks us through the story of one such alternative: Ayurvedic medicine.

The film Battle of the Sexes will take audiences back to 1973, when Billie Jean King played a tennis match against Bobby Riggs, a former men’s champion who had little time for the women’s game. The match was important for King, who was keen to score points for female sport. But how much has changed since then? Not enough, says former tennis professional Jo Ward. Women’s sport is still not taken seriously enough.

And it is 75 years this month since two pivotal moments in World War II: the Russian counterattack at Stalingrad and the British victory at El Alamein. Ben Shepherd argues they contain vital insights into the Russian mindset today, and why Brexiteer isolationism is fundamentally flawed.

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