Even one of the UK's most famous couples isn't free from accent discrimination. Bakounine / Shutterstock Accentism – discriminating against someone because of their accent – has a long history in the UK, where the way someone speaks is often an easy way to tell their social class. People withContinue Reading
William Prince of Wales and Catherine Princess of Wales accompanied by Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan Duchess of Sussex look at tributes to Queen Elizabeth II outside Windsor Castle Alamy/ Jamie Lorriman Many of us feel touched by the loss of our queen, but that is nothing compared toContinue Reading
CHELSEA will officially begin life without Thomas Tuchel TONIGHT when they welcome Austrian champions Red Bull Salzburg to the Bridge. The Blues’ shock defeat to Dinamo Zagreb on the opening night of the 2022/23 Champions League campaign was the beginning of the end of Tuchel’s career in West London. ButContinue Reading
DaLiu / Shutterstock For many, the week following the death of the Queen has been a time of mourning. It has also been one of tension around the question of free speech and protest. There have been several instances of police arresting or questioning protesters expressing anti-monarchy sentiment in London,Continue Reading
August 22 marked the 15th anniversary of the shooting of 11-year-old Rhys Jones in the Liverpool suburb of Croxteth. In the same week, the people of Liverpool again witnessed the merciless killing of an innocent child, gunned down in her own home. Nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel has become one more unnecessaryContinue Reading
Kyiv’s counteroffensive in the north-east of Ukraine appeared to take everyone by surprise, not least Russia’s war planners who had been moving troops south to meet an offensive in the Kherson region which Ukraine had been trumpeting about for several weeks. Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, is claiming that his militaryContinue Reading
DEONTAY WILDER has revealed the only way he will fight Anthony Joshua… is by sharing a joint with him. The Bronze Bomber is making his comeback to the squared circle on October 15 to face Finnish heavyweight Robert Helenius in New York. 2 Deontay Wilder has joked what it wouldContinue Reading
Anita Patterson Peppers/Shutterstock Becoming a parent comes with all sorts of questions and pressures. One of the most important decisions for new parents to make is how they are going to feed their baby – whether to breastfeed, bottle feed, or a mixture of the two. Research has found thatContinue Reading
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham introduced a bill Tuesday that would ban most abortions nationwide starting at 15 weeks of pregnancy. The South Carolina senator introduced the bill less than three months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that established the constitutional right to abortion. TheContinue Reading
Ministers are set to sign off on an 80 cent increase to the minimum wage to €11.30 per hour from January. Tánaiste Leo Varadkar, the Minister for Enterprise, is also expected to recommend to the Cabinet on Wednesday that the living wage is set at €13.10 from next year. AccordingContinue Reading
