6 d. ago This is how we do it: ‘If one of us is on a business trip and meets someone, we’re free to pursue it’

For Lise and Patrick, the possibility of sex with other people has allowed their own love life to blossom – providing it’s within limitsHow do you do it? Share the story of your sex life, anonymouslyOnce, Patrick had really nice oral sex with someone and told me what she did, and suggested we try that Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Court told line between IS sympathiser and member ‘crossed’ by ex

Lisa Smith’s defence team had argued her IS membership conviction ‘falls short of Irish law’.

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7 d. ago Former Irish soldier Lisa Smith led ‘totally anonymous’ life in Syria – lawyer

Smith, from Dundalk in Co Louth, is outlining her case against her conviction for being a member of so-called Islamic State at the Court of Appeal.

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1 week ago This is how we do it: ‘Trying for a baby has improved our sex life – we’re more adventurous’

Doug and Maggie feel as if they’ve had a relationship reset and are communicating more openly about sexHow do you do it? Share the story of your sex life, anonymouslyIt was like we’d pressed a reset button on our relationship Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘He has two major flaws’: Luka Dončić’s biographer on the Lakers star

A new book chronicles the Slovenian’s rise with the Dallas Mavericks, his extraordinary skills and the fallout from a trade that shook the NBASeventy-three points. That was Luka Dončić’s total when he led the Dallas Mavericks to a victory over the Atlanta Hawks last season. He wasn’t the only NBA player to have an explosion on offense that season – think Joel Embiid or Karl-Anthony Towns. And the league subsequently decided to change officiating to favor more physical play that would presumably cut down on high offensive output.That’s how Tim MacMahon sees it. The veteran ESPN writer has covered Dončić since the Slovenian’s arrival in Dallas as one of the most heralded European talents in NBA history. He saw Dončić live up to his billing, leading the Mavericks to the Western Conference finals in 2022 and the NBA finals last year. And he knew that even a change in rules wouldn’t stop Dončić’s stepback three. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago This is how we do it: ‘I only have months to live but sex makes all my despair fall away’

Rory recently received a terminal diagnosis, but he and his wife Anna are determined to keep enjoying the physical side of their relationship for as long as possibleHow do you do it? Share the story of your sex life, anonymouslyEven just yesterday, I was curled up with her in the afterglow and I felt total blissI still find just looking at him intoxicating. It doesn’t matter that illness has changed his body Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Valentine's Day pub shooting update: Inquest hears new detail about 'man who gunned down wife before jumping to his death off bridge'

Edward Smiths, 43, is believed to have gunned down Lisa Smith, also 43, in the car park of the Three Horsehoes in Knockholt, Kent on February 14.

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3 w. ago Lebanese ministers offer ‘assurance’ to Harris over Irish soldier death

Ireland’s deputy premier raised the case of Private Sean Rooney in a meeting with ministers ahead of a visit to troops currently serving in Lebanon.

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3 w. ago This is how we do it: ‘She reminds me that sex is fun – not a test I’m going to fail’

She was only the second person he’d had sex with – after his ex-wife of 25 years. Now only anxieties about confidence and their age gap hold them backHow do you do it? Share the story of your sex life, anonymouslySex used to feel like an obligation, now it feels like a team activity in pursuit of pleasure Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘More are published than could ever succeed’: are there too many books?

While some say the rise of the self-publishing model is damaging the industry, others feel it gives authors a fairer dealThe complaint that there are too many books is not a new one. “My son, be warned by them: of making many books there is no end,” reads one line in Ecclesiastes, written at least 2,000 years before the invention of the printing press.Now the bestselling author Bill Bryson has added his voice to the millennia-old chorus. There are 200,000 books published annually in the UK alone, “more books than you could possibly read,” the writer of Notes from a Small Island told the Times. He is not sure that the growth in self-publishing, in particular, is “a healthy development”. He said he gets sent “a lot of self-published books, and most of the time it is just some anonymous person’s life, and it is of no interest.” Continue reading...

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