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1. When simulated tropical storms churn inside the silicon universe of researchers‘ computers, such cyclones grow in power, and sometimes in number as well, as tropical temperatures increase.
2. Labour have allowed the executive to grow in power, secretive, unscrutinised and unaccountable, as more agencies, quangos and taskforces operate without adequate democratic control, claiming for themselves the authority bestowed by serving the ruling ideological agenda.
3. Age, according to Shakespeare, could not wither Cleopatra’s beauty, but Frances admits to an ‘inner rage’ about the casual misogyny that means women’s worth diminishes after the age of 40, while men seem to grow in power, influence and sometimes even sexual attractiveness in middle age. ‘Getting older and having to look good is so unfair,’ she says. ‘Men don’t have to do that.