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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
Get Baaeed at 30/1 to win Champion Stakes at Ascot with BetVictor
THE Champions Stakes takes place at Ascot on Saturday. And BetVictor are offering new customers odds of 30/1 that unbeaten superstar Baaeed will win his 11th successive race in his final outing on British Champions Day — that’s boosted from 2/9! 1 Get Baaeed to win the Champions Stakes atContinue Reading
BBC at 100: the future for global news and challenges facing the World Service
globalnewsshutterstock The BBC celebrates its 100th birthday on October 18 2022. It comes as the institution faces increasing competition for audiences from global entertainment providers, anxieties about the sustainability of its funding and a highly competitive global news market. Its international broadcasting operation, the BBC World Service, is only aContinue Reading
Late night eating may cause greater weight gain – new research points to why
This isn't the first study to show a link between late night eating and weight gain. MMD Made my dreams/ Shutterstock It’s long been popular advice for people looking to lose weight to avoid late night snacking. It’s no wonder, with a host of research showing that late night eatingContinue Reading
Base jumping: what we can learn from some of the world’s most extreme athletes about overcoming doubt
David Gallagher, Author provided You can be on that exit point for five minutes, battling all these voices in the head, and all of a sudden, a calmness comes over you, and you realise … it’s good, let’s do it. We used to call that “the moment”. Andy Guest, UKContinue Reading