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Love Island: the psychological challenges contestants – and viewers – could face after the show is over
Love Island winners Ekin-Su and Davide will leave the villa £50,000 richer. ITV Plc The finale of ITV’s Love Island was watched by millions of fans, many commenting live on social media as Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu and Davide Sanclimenti were awarded the £50,000 prize. The four couples who made the finalContinue Reading
The Kia EV6 GT Swaps Range for Speed, Sadly
We loved the vanilla EV6 with the best charging tech around. But this new performance version makes a fundamental mistake.Continue Reading
Houseplants don’t just look nice – they can also give your mental health a boost
Houseplants can be an essential link to nature – especially for those without access to a garden. Syda Productions/ Shutterstock For those of us without access to outside green space, houseplants are a stylish and affordable way of getting a nature fix. Alongside looking nice, indoor plants actually have severalContinue Reading
The tongue: how one of the body’s most sensitive organs is helping blind people ‘see’
The tip of the tongue is more sensitive than our fingertips. Anatoliy Karlyuk/Shutterstock Ever wondered why kissing feels better than holding hands? The tongue is a pretty incredible piece of kit, though notoriously difficult to study, due to its position inside the mouth. Obviously, it gives us access to theContinue Reading
Wagatha Christie: what the judgment said, and what it means for future libel litigants
The Wagatha Christie libel case is now over, with Rebekah Vardy losing her lawsuit against fellow football WAG (short for wives and girlfriends) Coleen Rooney in a high court judgement that questioned Vardy’s credibility as a witness. Although the case is now over, the result has several lessons for futureContinue Reading
Ukraine war: first grain ship leaves Odesa, but EU should have seen food and energy crises coming
Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has resulted in four interrelated security crises. The war in Ukraine is a tragedy for human security, but it affects geopolitical security as well as food and energy security. These four crises have been compounded by the failure of coercive diplomacy. This is a formContinue Reading
Three Lions: It’s time for an anthem replacement and here are our choices
T hree Lions has been the England football anthem since it was released in 1996. Written by David Baddiel and Frank Skinner alongside the Lightning Seeds, its lyrics “It’s coming home / It’s coming home / It’s coming / Football’s coming home,” have been chanted before, during and after everyContinue Reading
Boris Johnson is a bit like Churchill – but not in the ways he might want
Parallels don’t usually make for good history. They can overly flatter or excuse those involved, or imply a historic figure would act today as they did in the past. Sometimes, though, politicians themselves invite comparisons with a famous predecessor. It isn’t surprising, then, that Boris Johnson has been judged againstContinue Reading
PL clubs will NOT take knee before games after captains decided against gesture
PREMIER LEAGUE clubs will NOT take the knee before matches next season following a meeting between all 20 top-flight clubs. Since the restart of the 2020-21 campaign, teams have supporters the anti-racism gesture as a direct response to the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement. 1 Premier League captains have agreedContinue Reading
Living with COVID: how treating masks like umbrellas could help us weather future pandemic threats
When cases rise, we can make small changes to our behaviour. Jaromir Chalabala/Shutterstock Thankfully, the UK now looks to be past the peak of both the recent heatwave and the latest COVID wave. But there will be more of both – and in future, we might think about how weContinue Reading