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The ObserverLife and styleLisa Butcher, Model and TV presenterEver since I was tiny, the thing I wanted more than anything in the world was a horse. While all the girls at school were running around after boys, I was running around after horses. When I was 13, I found this horse, Lady, in the field at the bottom of our garden - she looked like a really maltreated little pony. I found out who owned her and just said: 'Can I look after her for you?

EducationObituaryRuth FrankenbergSociologist whose work on race helped define a new field of 'whiteness studies'The British-born sociologist Ruth Frankenberg, who has died aged 49 of lung cancer, did groundbreaking research on how race shapes people's lives in the US. Her first book, The Social Construction of Whiteness: White Women, Race Matters (1993), focused on the advantages that whiteness carries for women rather than just the disadvantages suffered by non-white women, and so changed the approach of American social scientists to the ways racial inequalities endure even when white people regard themselves as anti-racist.

A Propaganda poster for the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, with Red Army and Red Guard members charging forward holding Mao Zedong’s Little Red Book. Photograph: GraphicaArtis/Getty ImagesA Propaganda poster for the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, with Red Army and Red Guard members charging forward holding Mao Zedong’s Little Red Book. Photograph: GraphicaArtis/Getty ImagesThe Guardian briefingChina This article is more than 7 years oldExplainerThis article is more than 7 years oldFifty years ago one of the bloodiest eras in Chinese history began, in which as many as two million people died.

‘A metaphor for all the torn and multiple identities we hold inside’ … Agyness Deyn in the 2015 film adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song. Photograph: Dean MacKenzie‘A metaphor for all the torn and multiple identities we hold inside’ … Agyness Deyn in the 2015 film adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song. Photograph: Dean MacKenzieTop 10sBooksFrom Orwell’s satire to Woolf’s room of her own, great writers have shown us the personal and political freedoms that must be fought for and cherished Say “Scotland”, say “Freedom!

Life and style‘Vibes’ are everywhere, from pop culture to politics. Is it a symbol of human connection – or has it become meaningless? The most important people in the history of the word “vibes” are the Beach Boys. Before the release of Good Vibrations, in 1966, if you heard someone say “a vibe”, they were probably talking about a vibraphone – the xylophone-like percussion instrument with ringing metal bars, invented in 1916.

Politics'Gay porn' movie raises ripples on far rightHe is the poster boy of the BNP, an articulate former teacher whose blue eyes and easy charm helped win the far-right party 11 council seats in Barking, east London. But now Richard Barnbrook, London leader of the BNP, has been forced to deny that an erotic movie he produced and directed as a student was a gay porn film. HMS Discovery: A Love Story contains scenes of flagellation, men undressing and frolicking in a river and a naked man apparently performing a sex act on another.

UK news This article is more than 10 years oldAsda car park death: pensioner charged with manslaughter of Brian HolmesThis article is more than 10 years oldAlan Watts, 65, charged with killing Holmes, who died after incident outside Biggleswade supermarket on 3 August A man has been charged with manslaughter in connection with the death of a 64-year-old in a row over a disabled parking space, police said. Alan Watts, 65, of Biggleswade in Bedfordshire will appear before magistrates on Tuesday, charged with killing Brian Holmes, who died after a confrontation in the car park of the town's Asda supermarket on 3 August, Bedfordshire police said.

MLBFormer MLB player Darryl Hamilton killed in murder-suicideHamilton found dead in Houston homeReached World Series in 2000 with Mets Former MLB player Darryl Hamilton, a standout center fielder and a member of the New York Mets team that reached the 2000 World Series, was killed in a murder-suicide in a suburban Houston home, authorities said Monday. Hamilton was found Sunday after he was fatally shot in a house in Pearland. He was 50 and had worked for the MLB Network since 2013.

Felicity Cloake’s perfect celeriac remoulade. Photograph: Dan Matthews/The Guardian. Food styling: Loïc Parisot.Felicity Cloake’s perfect celeriac remoulade. Photograph: Dan Matthews/The Guardian. Food styling: Loïc Parisot.How to cook the perfect ...FoodCrunchy, nutty and faintly fennelly, celeriac is the ideal base for this classic winter salad “A typically French hors d’oeuvre” for Julia Child, and the taste of childhood holidays for me, this creamy, mustardy slaw is a Gallic classic, a stalwart ofParisian bistros and hypermarket chiller cabinets alike.