OpinionGrace Dent's Weekend column This article is more than 4 years oldLizzo is a joyous inspiration – but body positivity has come too late for the likes of meThis article is more than 4 years oldGrace DentThere was no such thing when I was a teen in the 80s; there was the heavenly Maria Whittaker on Page 3 and Sabrina in the Boys Boys Boys video As Lizzo paraded gloriously with her flute at Glastonbury last month, a paean to body positivity, a poster girl for billions of proud, perfectly-imperfect young women worldwide, I finally accepted that, when it comes to radical self-acceptance, I have missed the boat.

StageA new stage production tells the stories of women and their bodily autonomy, or lack thereof, as part of the fight to reverse the supreme court decision to restrict abortion Theirs was a secret space. In the early 1970s, Molly Smith and her sister Bridget attended weekly women’s consciousness-raising sessions in a friend’s living room near Washington’s Catholic University. They read books such as Our Bodies, Ourselves, a groundbreaking text about women’s health and sexuality.

BooksObituaryObituary: Adrian HenriProlific painter and poet famed for communicating the delights of popular cultureAdrian Henri, who has died aged 68, was perhaps best known as a poet, though he was primarily a painter, as evidenced in a recent retrospective at Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery. But it was as a communicator, in the broadest sense of the word, that he made his greatest impact, both on those around him and on the cultural scene generally.

History booksReviewThis powerful survey reflects on the past to assess the likely characteristics of conflicts to comeIn this authoritative and illuminating survey, Freedman – a professor of war studies and member of the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war – argues that “the future of war has a distinctive and revealing past”. The subject of wars to come has long fascinated not just those in the military but also politicians and writers highlighting concerns about foreign threats, campaigning against types of weaponry or seeking to banish war.

MonarchyAnalysisTwo royal health announcements in one day show different approach since late queenEsther AddleyBuckingham and Kensington palaces announced procedures for King Charles, 75, and Princess of Wales, 42 When Queen Elizabeth was admitted to hospital for a night in October 2021 for “preliminary investigations”, the first the public learned of her health concerns was a front page story in the Sun. The monarch might have hoped not to cause a fuss, but the fact that royal reporters had been told she was advised to rest, but not that she was in hospital, led to feverish speculation over the true state of her health – and criticism of palace “secrecy”.