2 h. ago Consider Yourself Kissed by Jessica Stanley review – a delightfully grounded romance

This irresistible love story braids the personal and the political – from Brexit to who gets to use the spare room as an officeThere are not many romantic novels that include Brexit, Boris Johnson’s ICU stay and the “Edstone”. Then again, not many political novels begin with a classic meet-cute. Jessica Stanley’s UK debut, Consider Yourself Kissed, is – to misquote Dorothy L Sayers – either a political story with romantic interludes, or a romance novel with political interludes. It is also the kind of book that, for a certain kind of reader, will immediately become a treasure.That meet-cute, then: Coralie, a young Australian copywriter, and Adam, a single dad, swap homes for a single night. Adam looks like a shorter, younger Colin Firth; Coralie waits in vain for him to tell her that she looks “like Lizzy Bennet, a known fact at school”. Coralie considers Adam’s neat bookcase of political biographies, including – to her joy – those of Australian politicians. Adam cons...

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19 h. ago John Terry posts intimate bedroom snap with wife and talks about 'being stiff'

John Terry has posted a bedroom snap of his wife giving him a massage as he admitted he’s ‘stiff in all the wrong places’ after enduring a brutal London Marathon run

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67 h. ago Why these are the most important local elections since Boris Johnson won London in 2008

Polls have put Reform UK ahead for months now but these local elections will be the first test of whether the traditional two-party Labour-Tory grip on British politics is under threat, writes David Maddox

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3 d. ago BORIS JOHNSON: It's time for Donald Trump to take the boot off Ukraine's neck and put the squeeze on Putin

When Putin this week launched one of his most vicious attacks so far upon the innocent citizens of Kyiv , it was an act of supreme contempt.

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3 d. ago Reform UK on course to win in two mayoral contests – UK politics live

Polling predicts victory for party in Greater Lincolnshire and Hull/East Yorkshire with the Greens possibly taking West of EnglandThere are six mayoral elections next week. Two of them are for single-authority mayors (Doncaster and North Tyneside), but the others are for combined-authority mayors (or regional mayors – like metro mayors, but not just covering city regions). Today YouGov has released polling covering all four of these contests and it suggests Reform UK is on course to win two of them easily. And the Green party is narrowly ahead in a third, the poll suggests.Here are the polling figures.In theory the Tories should be winning in Lincolnshire as they hold most of the parliamentary seats in the area and have dominated local politics forever. But it’s also the most Reform-friendly part of the country. It contains Richard Tice’s constituency and numerous seats in which they came second. Plus their candidate is a former Tory MP – Andrea Jenkyns, famous for her Boris Johnson...

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4 d. ago Boris Johnson warns Ukraine ‘gets nothing’ from Trump’s peace proposals

The former UK prime minister, who built the international coalition backing Ukraine, has demolished the US president’s peace proposals

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4 d. ago Local elections 2025: Guide to every council and mayoral contest

A total of 1,641 council seats are up for grabs across 23 local authorities.

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5 d. ago Dani Dyer's honest admission about dad after wild past cheating scandals

Danny Dyer recently opened up about his past infidelities which saw his wife Jo gain control of all of their finances – which he admits he doesn't blame her for

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5 d. ago Andrew Flintoff's wife admits she'd 'never seen someone so scared' after his horror crash and opens up on heartbreaking conversation with their kids before they saw his injuries

Andrew Flintoff's wife has claimed she has 'never seen someone so scared' when she visited her husband in hospital for the first time after his life-altering car crash back in 2022.

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5 d. ago Danny Dyer sobs as he admits wife Jo was 'right to kick him out' and take control of finances after drug binges

The former EastEnders star was speaking on ITV show The Assembly, where questions are asked by a group of interviewers who are autistic, neuro divergent or learning disabled - and nothing is off the table.

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6 d. ago Nigel Farage thinks net zero is the new Brexit. Starmer can prove him wrong | Rafael Behr

Labour must deliver the green transition voters want, leaving Reform and the Tories on the side of economic decline and dictatorsWhich former British prime minister described the climate emergency as “a clock ticking to the furious rhythm of hundreds of billions of pistons and turbines and furnaces and engines quilting the Earth in an invisible and suffocating blanket of CO2”?The florid style gives it away. You’d guess Boris Johnson even if you’d forgotten that the master of Brexit bombast also had a sideline in net zero evangelism. It wasn’t the most memorable part of his repertoire and it didn’t catch on as a Conservative catechism.Rafael Behr is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Hilarious moment little girl, three, moans her brother has more Easter eggs than her and counts them up to prove it

Lauren Horbury, from the UK, had bought all three of her children seven chocolate eggs each, and displayed them in stacks on the sofa.

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9 d. ago Can my marriage recover from my sex addiction? | Ask Philippa

Your job now is not to manage your wife’s feelings but to focus on your own behaviourThe question I am a man in my mid-50s, living with my wife and our children. Two years ago, I admitted to an affair, texting sex workers, watching porn and checking out women in public. I was not upfront with my wife and it badly affected her self-worth. Since then, I have been in therapy and some childhood issues have come to light around secrecy, lying and feeling unlovable. But I take responsibility for my actions. We have also done couples’ counselling and spent two difficult years working through it all while raising the family.In recent months, things have been better. Trust has been rebuilding, we’ve felt closer and the future felt hopeful. But last week she caught me looking at a woman on the street in a way that upset her. I lied about it at first, then admitted it later. It reopened all the old wounds and I’m angry at myself for repeating the same damaging behaviours around dishonesty and ...

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9 d. ago Deeply weird bed 'previously owned by Boris Johnson' appears on eBay

An eBay seller claims the vintage bed - “a true piece of history” - was previously owned by the former Prime Minister - though they haven’t revealed how long ago

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1 week ago Wife of Kilmar Ábrego García speaks as White House defiant over US return

Jennifer Vasquez Sura relieved husband is alive but Trump officials say in mocking X post he is ‘never coming back’US politics live – latest updatesJennifer Vasquez Sura, the wife of Kilmar Ábrego García, the man the Trump administration has admitted it mistakenly deported, expressed relief to learn he is alive after a Democratic US senator managed to meet with him in El Salvador – as the White House posted on social media that he is “never coming back” to the US.“It was very overwhelming – the most important thing for me, my children, his mom, brothers was to see him alive, and we saw him alive,” Vasquez Sura told ABC in an interview. Continue reading...

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1 week ago ‘It was very overwhelming’: wife of Kilmar Ábrego García speaks out

Jennifer Vasquez Sura, wife of the man wrongly deported to El Salvador, gives interview after learning he’s aliveJennifer Vasquez Sura, wife of Kilmar Ábrego García, the man the Trump administration has admitted it mistakenly deported to El Salvador, on Friday expressed relief to learn he is alive after a Democratic US senator managed to meet with him.“It was very overwhelming – the most important thing for me, my children, his mom, brothers was to see him alive, and we saw him alive” Vasquez Sura told ABC in an interview. Continue reading...

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1 week ago BORIS JOHNSON: My embarrassing WhatsApp gaffe that I accidentally sent to every Tory MP

Go on, admit it. You can't do without it. Every morning - before we are even out of bed - we scrabble for the mobile. Our fingers grope for the little green icon, a speech bubble enclosing a phone.

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1 week ago Bjorn Ulvaeus admits he was ‘troubled’ by age gap between him and wife Christina Sas

Swedish musician and composer said it was ‘love at first sight’ when he met Sas, 28 years his junior, in 2021

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1 week ago Boris Johnson’s cycling vision stutters as number of bike journeys fails to rise above pre

Figures released by the Department for Transport show the average number of bicycle journeys per person has remained stable since a peak in 2020

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1 week ago Freddie Flintoff's grounding force: Cricket star admits he put wife Rachael 'through hell' with his booze

Since Freddie Flintoff, from Hale, was involved in a horrific smash in 2022, Rachael Wools has been nursing him back to health. But it's not the first time she's helped her husband get back on his feet.

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