We've all been there… Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock Have you ever tried to build IKEA furniture with your partner only for it to go horribly wrong? How about planning a wedding or other big party and realising you have wildly different visions of the event? In my research, I investigate whatContinue Reading
A breakthrough may have been made in the bid to unlock Boris Johnson’s old mobile phone after an ally suggested the Government had recovered a past code. The deadline for handing over messages from the former prime minister’s previous device to the UK Covid-19 inquiry was missed this week dueContinue Reading
U K Garage fans are in for a treat. The Streets have announced a UK headline tour, alongside The Streets’ upcoming release The Darker The Shadow The Brighter The Light — their first album in more than a decade. The album will be released on October 20, and the full-lengthContinue Reading
A trade union umbrella body has warned of a “carnival of industrial unrest” in Northern Ireland this autumn if the pay of public sector workers in the region falls behind the rest of the UK. The NIC/Ictu was responding after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak offered public sector workers in EnglandContinue Reading
Kevin Spacey began his defence in his sexual assault trial today by telling a packed Southwark Crown Court in London that touching one accuser was “in my mind romantic”. The 63-year-old Hollywood star faces 12 sexual offence charges against four men between 2001 and 2013, all of which he denies.Continue Reading
“As most of us are unlikely to be invited on holiday with Joanna Lumley any time soon, let us enjoy the next best thing,” said Anita Singh in The Daily Telegraph: an ITV series in which she travels through Indonesia, Madagascar, India, Jordan and Zanzibar, tracing the history of theContinue Reading
W hatsApp messages on Boris Johnson’s old mobile phone have still not been handed over to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry. Downing Street on Monday said “all requisite material” had been given to the inquiry after the Government lost its bid to prevent their release. The Cabinet Office had until 4pmContinue Reading
Is practising yoga a form of cultural appropriation? The question has arisen in recent years as the yoga industry continues to grow and strange new forms of the practice – from “goat yoga” to “gin and yin yoga” – are introduced. Yoga practitioners in India have accused the West ofContinue Reading
L abour will pledge to “turn the page on Tory sleaze” if it wins the next election, as it fleshes out its plans for an independent ethics watchdog for ministerial standards. Deputy leader Angela Rayner is expected to renew a commitment to “stop the rot” by creating a new bodyContinue Reading
Huw Edwards’s wife Vicky Flind has named him as the BBC presenter accused of inappropriate sexual behaviour. Around the same time, the Metropolitan Police said that they had no information to suggest that any criminal offence had been committed. The initial story, published in The Sun, was that an unnamedContinue Reading
