It's probably not a worry to the woman dressed up as a red giant with flaming paint-red hair outside the rally for the Revolutionary Communist League, whose slogan - I hope an ironic reference to advertising - is: "One hundred per cent left!"

BBC: NEWS | Europe | Europe diary: A useful vote

For the current Vanity Fair cover, the young actress Emma Stone has been outfitted as an overgrown Lolita bikini, blond hair, flaming-red lips.

NEWYORKER: Just the Sex