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Has the pandemic changed our personalities? New research suggests we’re less open, agreeable and conscientious
Lightspring/Shutterstock For many of us, some personality traits stay the same throughout our lives while others change only gradually. However, evidence shows that significant events in our personal lives which induce severe stress or trauma can be associated with more rapid changes in our personalities. A new study, published inContinue Reading
Beckham’s son Romeo joins world-class footballers in using celebrity barber
DAVID BECKHAM’S son Romeo has joined a host of superstar footballers by choosing A-Star Barbers for a haircut. A clip of the 20-year-old Inter Miami forward was posted on social media after he had his trim completed. 8 A-Star Barbers showed off Romeo’s haircut on social mediaCredit: Instagram 8 TheContinue Reading
BBC at 100: a century of informing, educating, entertaining – and trying to keep politicians honest
The BBC as it is known in Britain – as a breathing part of our political and social life, the soundtrack to our private lives, our thinking as citizens and our voice to the world – was born out of conflict. It was a reaction to the nihilistic slaughter ofContinue Reading
Daniel Radcliffe pays tribute to ‘incredible’ Harry Potter star Robbie Coltrane
D aniel Radcliffe has remembered his Harry Potter co-star Robbie Coltrane as “one of the funniest people” and an “incredible actor” following his death aged 72. The Scottish star, whose real name is Anthony Robert McMillan, was best known for playing the beloved Hogwarts gamekeeper Rubeus Hagrid in the fantasyContinue Reading
Is it embarrassing to be an expat? Brits living abroad are distancing themselves from the term after Brexit
The Art of Pics / Shutterstock Of the 5.5 million British people living outside of the UK, many have long considered themselves expatriates – people living outside their country of birth, often with plans to return home. For a long time, I didn’t think twice about using the word “expat”Continue Reading
Omicron BA.5 is declining in the U.S. as emerging variants gain ground, CDC data shows
The U.S. faces at least seven different versions of Covid-19 omicron as the nation heads into winter when health officials are expecting another wave of viral infections. Although the omicron BA.5 variant remains dominant in the country, it is starting to lose some ground to other versions of the virus,Continue Reading
Kwasi Kwarteng: only a desperate prime minister sacks a chancellor
Having seen her government’s popularity plummet just weeks after taking office, British prime minister Liz Truss has sacked her chancellor of the exchequer, Kwasi Kwarteng in a bid to save herself. Kwarteng, widely seen as Truss’s right-hand man, was rushed back to London from New York for the occasion, whereContinue Reading
Liz Truss is now a case study in poor leadership
Leaders are watched. They are scrutinised. If you don’t like the idea of being held accountable and having to answer for your actions then a leadership role is probably not for you. I don’t know if such thoughts have ever occurred to Liz Truss, who is still, at the timeContinue Reading
The magic of touch: how deafblind people taught us to ‘see’ the world differently during COVID
Toeizuza Thailand/Shutterstock As someone who is severely deaf and completely blind, I felt overnight I had lost a third sense, my sense of touch. To make matters worse, people around me faded away – voices had become so quiet that there was an eerie soundlessness all around. Nothing was makingContinue Reading
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s $1bn art collection comes to London ahead of likely record-breaking auction
I t is set to become the world’s most expensive art collection ever sold, containing an estimated $1 billion worth of masterpieces by the likes of Paul Cezanne, Édouard Manet and David Hockney, collected over decades by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. On Friday, Londoners were given the chance to see highlightsContinue Reading