LGBTQ+ rights This article is more than 4 months oldNashville elects Tennessee’s first openly transgender politicianThis article is more than 4 months oldOlivia Hill, 57, a military veteran, joins the Nashville city council in historic election A transgender woman won election to a seat on Nashville’s city council, becoming the first openly transgender person to be voted into political office in Tennessee. Olivia Hill, 57, secured one of the four open at-large seats on the metro council of Nashville, a politically liberal city in an overwhelmingly conservative state.

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Cif beliefMental health This article is more than 12 years oldCarl Jung, part 1: Taking inner life seriouslyThis article is more than 12 years oldMark VernonAchieving the right balance between what Jung called the ego and self is central to his theory of personality developmentIf you have ever thought of yourself as an introvert or extrovert; if you've ever deployed the notions of the archetypal or collective unconscious; if you've ever loved or loathed the new age; if you have ever done a Myers-Briggs personality or spirituality test; if you've ever been in counselling and sat opposite your therapist rather than lain on the couch – in all these cases, there's one man you can thank: Carl Gustav Jung.

Alternating currants: Dishoom’s jackfruit biryani. Photograph: Ola O Smit/The Guardian. Food styling: Oliver Rowe. Prop styling: Anna WilkinsAlternating currants: Dishoom’s jackfruit biryani. Photograph: Ola O Smit/The Guardian. Food styling: Oliver Rowe. Prop styling: Anna WilkinsFour favourite recipesFoodRecreate restaurant group Dishoom’s crowd-pleasing dishes at home, from their house black dal to a rich chicken curry and fragrant jackfruit biryani Jackfruit biryani (pictured above)To make this dish vegan, swap the Greek yoghurt for live coconut yoghurt, use extra-virgin coconut oil instead of the butter and omit the cream.

Classical musicFrom eavesdropping to iPads and beetles to Bach, the pianist reflects on the extraordinary feats of memory required of concert soloists, and how she continues to exercise that muscle It happens to all pianists at some point: that terrifying moment when you’re on stage and can’t remember what comes next. My former teacher, Jean-Paul Sévilla, was once playing Bach’s Goldberg Variations when, at the end of Variation 7, he couldn’t remember how Variation 8 began.