What's got my attention this week

Things to read, watch and listen to this weekend

I've struggled to find a news image that doesn't feature Donald Trump or Boris Johnson this week, and nobody needs that in their inbox on Friday morning! So here are Helen Mirren and Lucy Liu (combined age 131) playing baddies in superhero movie, Shazam

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• Helen Mirren on having a ball kicking ass on screen (S'ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre).
• The subversive wisdom of old wives' tales. (S'ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)
• It's 50 years since women were first allowed on the trading floor. (S'ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre) Some trailblazers look back. (£)
• It's time to say it: bubble baths will not beat burnout! (S'ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)
• Courteney Cox on losing sight of what she looked like and having her fillers dissolved (S'ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre).
• Are you entering your mother-in-law era? (S'ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)
• In the spirit of the clocks going forward, the evenings getting lighter and learning to grow, I loved this piece about what we learn from leafing through seed catalogues (S'ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre).