Janice Turner

Birth rates are plummeting both in Britain and globally. Motherhood has become a hard sell but could it be a blessing in disguise, asks Janice Turner. Plus two other writers share their experience

Nothing about the US election reminds me more that America is a foreign country than a curious campaign ad narrated by Julia Roberts. Here we see a couple in patriotic baseball caps at a polling

Darlington nursing staff didn’t have views on ‘trans debate’, then a biologically male colleague used their changing room

Once a month you can visit the exhibition Naturist Paradises in Marseilles stark naked apart from shoes (risk of splinters from the parquet, apparently). We did not take up the offer but did learn

The human brain is programmed to search for patterns, but looking at how MPs voted on assisted dying it is hard to find one. Some suggested that middle-class MPs with financial means voted in favour

Gisèle Pelicot became a symbol of courage when she waived her anonymity to attend the trial of her husband and 50 other men accused of raping her — and ignited fierce debate about the law surrounding rape. Janice Turner finds out how the case is tearing French society apart

The big fight is over with these chemicals banned for gender-confused children — but a clinical trial presents a new risk

Keely Hodgkinson has the contender swagger of a heavyweight boxer — she knows she’s box-office

When I reported from the trial, it leached into my dreams. French culture enabled these men. Will there be a reckoning, asks Janice Turner

The grim common denominator in drug-facilitated rape, gang bangs and indecent exposure is finally being talked about