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TelevisionInterviewBetty Gilpin: ‘I am more than the sum of my cheekbones and areolas’Rachael SigeeAfter years of playing bimbo roles, Betty Gilpin found her voice in Glow. Now with an essay collection and a feminist take on Watergate, she’s free to make ‘weird choices’ Betty Gilpin has a succinct way of describing what she sees as an “overcorrection” to female characters on screen. “I used to be a bimbo with tits. Suddenly I’m a Magic 8 ball with tits,” she says, referring to the child’s toy that tells fortunes.

Race This article is more than 6 years oldDove apologises for ad showing black woman turning into white oneThis article is more than 6 years oldBrand says it ‘missed mark’ after being accused of racism in campaign promoting body lotion Dove has apologised after publishing an advert on its Facebook page which showed a black woman turning into a white woman. The brand was accused of racism over the online advertising campaign and it later admitted it had “missed the mark” with an image posted on Facebook.

Secret aid workerWorking in development This article is more than 6 years oldThis article is more than 6 years oldThree humanitarian workers look back at their experiences of sexual violence and harassment. This time there must be change We are three women in our late 20s who have worked everywhere from headquarters to dealing with complex emergencies in the deep field across nearly every continent. We are experts in our lines of work, and we have all been subjected to repeated instances of sexual harassment and violence by men at work.

OpinionRudy Giuliani This article is more than 8 months oldThe fall of Rudy Giuliani, once the toast of New York, continues unabatedThis article is more than 8 months oldLloyd GreenDespite his standing as a top prosecutor and mayor, the warning signs were there – we just chose to ignore them From “America’s mayor” to a human punchline, Rudy Giuliani’s descent continues unabated. On Monday, news broke of the septuagenarian Giuliani being slammed with a $10m sexual harassment and unpaid wages lawsuit brought by Noelle Dunphy, 43, a former aide.

‘My artemia crew swam around behind the kitchen sink, until Mum accidentally knocked them out of the window.’ Photograph: Nora Peevy/Getty Images/iStockphoto‘My artemia crew swam around behind the kitchen sink, until Mum accidentally knocked them out of the window.’ Photograph: Nora Peevy/Getty Images/iStockphotoThe pet I'll never forgetPetsDeprived of pets for most of my childhood, my first came out of a sachet. They were educational and prize-winning, but I couldn’t overlook their incessant sexual bacchanal

PoliticsAitken's disgrace: The wifeLolicia Aitken, aged 46, was born in Belgrade but moved to Switzerland at the age of five, writes Kamal Ahmed. At 20, she was given an import-export business by her father. 'I made a lot of money by the time I was 23. I was successful and full of ambition,' she said. The rest of her time was spent shopping. In 1977, Lolicia met Jonathan Aitken at the exclusive Annabel's nighclub in London.

Society booksInterviewHow to avoid a civil war, by the man who predicted TrumpDavid ShariatmadariAcross the west, popular misery and ‘elite overproduction’ are fuelling crisis, argues data-driven historian Peter Turchin. So what can we do to turn things around? In February 2010, Peter Turchin, a relatively obscure researcher at the University of Connecticut, wrote a letter to the distinguished journal Nature. He was responding to their “2020 visions” issue – an upbeat dawn-of-the-decade exercise that collected predictions of progress from across science and politics.

Last Volkswagen camper vans are made in Brazil – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Volkswagen will finally stop producing the Kombi camper van in the last plant to manufacture it in Brazil this month. An event was held in São Bernardo do Campo celebrating the last days of the minibus after 62 years Wed 18 Dec 2013 14.

OperaReviewHackney Empire, London Eloise Lally straightforwardly tells this convoluted story of concealed identity ending in a mass poisoning Lucrezia Borgia has a bad reputation, and that holds whether you’re talking about the historical figure or Donizetti’s 1833 opera. The woman herself is fascinating: was she really the perpetrator of as many murders as she gets the blame for? As for the opera, when it first reached Paris, Victor Hugo – on whose play it was based – got an injunction to stop it being performed, so perhaps even he realised that its plot was something to blush about.