57 m. ago It’s SAD time again: Here are five easy steps to fight seasonal affective disorder

It may be as simple as grabbing dinner with a friend

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62 m. ago Not bad for a hellhole: How a flood of AI money is making San Francisco buzz again — despite Donald Trump

Robot fight nights. An Instagram mayor. Falling crime rates, soaring rents and a luxury mansion boom. Io Dodds explores the uneven recovery of the city that the president just loves to hate — and how federal crackdowns or financial bubbles could derail its fragile comeback

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74 m. ago So you want to try psychotherapy. But what does it actually do?

From psychoanalysis to existential therapy, there’s a bewildering variety of approaches – with one thing in commonSam came into psychotherapy during a difficult period at work. He had started to feel as if he was stagnating in his role and it was getting him down. As he approached midlife he had reached a level of seniority that he had sought for years, but now he was starting to wonder whether this was it. He wasn’t sure exactly what the matter was: he didn’t feel especially depressed, just somehow stuck. It had taken him a long time to consider speaking to someone – what could they really do, in the absence of an obvious psychological disorder?Psychotherapy occupies an increasingly central place in our culture. Just as we have become inclined to understand our struggles and our sadness under the heading of “mental health”, so too we have placed ever greater authority on psychotherapists to help us understand how we should deal with the problems life throws up. Even those without d...

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4 h. ago Romesh Ranganathan: ‘I Want Your Soul by Armand Van Helden is so relentlessly catchy I’m sick of it’

The comedian and presenter would do LL Cool J at karaoke – if his family’s lives depended on it. But what song would make his funeral ‘pop off’?The first song I fell in love with Growing up, every weekend we’d visit a different Sri Lankan family’s house in London. One kid had Thriller by Michael Jackson, and I fell in love with Billie Jean. I then ripped my brother’s Michael Jackson Bad poster in a retaliation move, for which I now formally apologise.The song I do at karaoke I’ve never done it. If somebody had my family and said: “Pick a song for them to be released,” I’d still consider not doing it, before eventually settling on Mama Said Knock You Out by LL Cool J. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Strictly Come Dancing fans 'gutted' as leaked result reveals 'poor' exit spoiler

The latest dance-off results were leaked early revealing a Halloween disaster for one couple in the BBC One dance contest

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5 h. ago Robin Hood review – Sean Bean gifts us the most gloriously bad TV offering of the year

It ticks every box you could wish for in your olde worlde trash: Sean Bean as the Sheriff of Nottingham, faerie smut and not a bad wig in sight! Hurrah!Autumn is entering the home straight. Winter is coming. We are more than due, therefore, a piece of fantasy/folkloric tomfoolery set in the days of yore – which is further back than yesteryear and therefore more forgiving all round – stuffed with young actors trying out their talents, and old thesps keeping their alimony/next passion-project funded. Welcome, my friends, to this year’s most glorious offering: Robin Hood.I really only need to tell you two things about it. One is that it stars Sean Bean as the Sheriff of Nottingham. I know. I know. We all wanted to live that long and we have! And two, there are no bad wigs in it! Because – there are no wigs at all! Some benevolent hand must have reached down and gently turned wardrobe away from the “long, stringy, Yore-hair” box that habitually damns these ventures, and instead commande...

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6 h. ago MIKEY SMITH: 8 unhinged Donald Trump moments as he threatens to invade Nigeria

For a man so obsessed with how things look, Donald Trump is very bad at optics - he held a very crass Halloween party at the same time as hundreds of thousands of Americans are losing their food stamps - and now he's threatening to invade Nigeria

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7 h. ago The biggest problem with out of date Celtic dawned on me watching Tony the technocrat – Hugh Keevins

Desmond's statement read like he couldn’t think of something bad enough to say about someone

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10 h. ago New study says scanning tongue could uncover devastating degenerative disease

Motor Neurone Disease (MND) can affect adults of any age, but it is more prevalent in those over 50

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11 h. ago TALK OF THE TOWN: More royal woe as Princess Anne's son Peter files to dissolve company behind his annual horse festival at Gatcombe Park

The princess's son, Peter Phillips, has applied to dissolve the company that organises the event, which has not run since 2023 - when the final day was abandoned because of bad weather.

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13 h. ago As Barack Obama stumps for other Democrats, the party gets to see what it lost

The wit and wisdom of the superstar ex-US president make him the best candidate – too bad he can’t run“It’s not as if we didn’t see some of this coming,” said Barack Obama, a note of bleak humour in his voice. “I will admit it’s worse than even I expected, but I did warn y’all!”The crowd at a sports arena in Norfolk, Virginia, half-laughed and half-groaned. “I did,” Obama added. “You can run the tape.” Continue reading...

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13 h. ago Chelsea boss hits out at Mary Earps’s ‘unacceptable’ comments on Hannah Hampton

Earps had claimed that Hampton’s place in the England squad was a case of bad behaviour being rewarded

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15 h. ago Bad bacteria in babies' guts could make them more likely to develop depression as adults

Different strains of bacteria found in the gut have long been known to influence mental health - a phenomenon known as the brain-gut axis.

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16 h. ago Jockey Tommie Jakes 'in bad place' and 'struggled' before his tragic death at 19

One of Tommie Jakes' weighing room colleagues has paid tribute to the jockey who was found dead at his home near Newmarket on Thursday at the age of 19, just hours after his final ride at Nottingham Racecourse

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17 h. ago Jockey Tommie Jakes ‘obviously in a bad place' before tragic death aged 19

Senior jockey Hector Crouch said the tragic news of 19-year-old apprentice jockey Tommie Jakes' sudden death on Thursday was being keenly felt within the weighing room

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20 h. ago My crippling anxiety was so bad I couldn't leave my bedroom. Here's exactly what I did to get it under control: NICOLA BONN

To the outside world, it looked like I had it all. But that wasn't the whole truth. I've struggled with anxiety, on and off, since I was little.

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20 h. ago Could the bacteria in our guts help to shape our personalities?

Rats with faecal implants from exuberant toddlers were more willing to explore their surroundings

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21 h. ago Bryan Cranston ‘not closed’ to idea of bringing back Breaking Bad’s Walter White

Series creator Vince Gilligan also addressed the idea of revisiting the world of ‘Breaking Bad’

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22 h. ago Electric blankets are 'perfect breeding ground' for dust mites as expert issues health warning

Here are five signs that your electric blanket is probably crawling in dust mites and bacteria

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25 h. ago Gut doctor Megan Rossi issues 'think again' alert over common toilet habit

Dr Megan Rossi said can cause a number of health issues

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