4 d. ago Badenoch calls for broader review of equality and gender recognition laws – UK politics live

‘These laws were written 20 years ago plus when the world was different,’ Tory leader saysThe chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has suggested that there may be legal challenges around the efficacy of gender recognition certificates (GRC) ahead.Asked on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme if yesterday’s supreme court ruling had rendered the legal document worthless, Kishwer Falkner said:I think the next stage of litigation may well be tests as to the efficacy of the GRC, and or other areas. We don’t believe they are [worthless]. We think they’re quite important.But I think there will be other areas, I mean, the Government is thinking of digital IDs, and if digital IDs come in, then what documentation will provide the identity of that person? So it’s going to be a space that we’ll have to watch very carefully as we go on.It’s a victory for common sense, but only if you recognise that trans people exist. They have rights, and their rights must be respected – then it ...

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4 d. ago NHS has to change transwomen patient guidance as new rules loom after court ruling, says equalities watchdog

Trans men and women are ‘worried that people are coming after their right to exist’, an MSP has said following the Supreme Court’s ruling

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4 d. ago Gender ruling ‘a victory for common sense, but only if you recognise trans people exist’, says equalities watchdog – live

Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission says trans people ‘have rights, and their rights must be respected’The chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has suggested that there may be legal challenges around the efficacy of gender recognition certificates (GRC) ahead.Asked on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme if yesterday’s supreme court ruling had rendered the legal document worthless, Kishwer Falkner said:I think the next stage of litigation may well be tests as to the efficacy of the GRC, and or other areas. We don’t believe they are [worthless]. We think they’re quite important.But I think there will be other areas, I mean, the Government is thinking of digital IDs, and if digital IDs come in, then what documentation will provide the identity of that person? So it’s going to be a space that we’ll have to watch very carefully as we go on.It’s a victory for common sense, but only if you recognise that trans people exist. They have rights, and their rights m...

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4 d. ago Trans community ‘worried people are coming after their right to exist’, says MSP

The Supreme Court handed down its judgment on the definition of a woman in the Equality Act on Wednesday.

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6 d. ago JoJo Siwa's mother weighs into CBB  'love triangle' with Chris Hughes

Dance Moms star JoJo, 21, came out as pansexual in 2021 and has described herself as gay in recent interviews.

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1 week ago David Tennant 'sad' as he admits he struggled to say 'I love you' to dying parents

The former 'Doctor Who' actor has admitted that his mother Helen and father Alexander rarely stated their love for David and his siblings when they were younger

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1 week ago Meghan Markle gives rare glimpse into Lilibet's life from nursery routine to sweet habit

In her new podcast, Confessions of a Female Founder, Meghan Markle spoke about why she loves balancing business with motherhood, while offering a sweet insight into the daily routine of her youngest child, Princess Lilibet

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2 w. ago Corporate America won’t stop Trump’s tariffs. Here’s why | Alex Bronzini

Whether among executives, lobbyists or university trustees, an elite backlash to the Trump administration won’t work. It’s up to working people to resistFew historical analogies exist for Donald Trump’s newly announced tariffs. The investment bank Evercore estimates that the so-called “liberation day” announcement has raised the weighted average US tariff to 29% – its highest rate since 1900. To call it a generational action would be an understatement; my grandmother was born in 1939.These tariffs, if they remain in place, will raise prices, eliminate jobs and shrink retirements. No one will pay for them more dearly than American workers. Yet a shock to capitalism inevitably raises the question of whether, and how, capitalists will respond. Faced with Trump’s tariffs, what will the US’s business class do? Continue reading...

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2 w. ago New health benefit set to replace Attendance Allowance for pensioners this month

The change for new and existing claimants will only impact people with a Scottish postcode.

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2 w. ago ‘Shame’ on world leaders for neglect of displaced civilians in DRC, says aid chief

US and Europe criticised by head of Norwegian Refugee Council for ‘neglect’ of people living ‘subhuman’ existence World leaders should be ashamed of their neglect of people whose lives were “hanging by a thread” at a time of surging violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the international charity leader Jan Egeland has said.In a stinging attack on aid cuts and the “nationalistic winds” blowing across Europe and the US, the Norwegian Refugee Council’s head told the Guardian how people were living out in the open, in overcrowded, unsanitary displacement encampments around the city of Goma, where 1.2 million people have had to flee from their homes as the M23 rebels advanced through the DRC’s North and South Kivu provinces. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Streaming: Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy and the best older women age

The recent Bridget Jones sequel, a big hit at the UK box office, celebrates the romance between its middle-aged star and her gen-Z lover, but from Babygirl to The Mother, how do women on screen with younger partners usually fare?At this admittedly early stage of 2025, with all the noisy blockbusters of summer still ahead of us, the UK’s box-office report tells a nostalgic story. The year’s highest-grossing new release, raking in more than double its nearest rival, Captain America, is Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy – a sequel in which its American distributors had so little confidence that they booted it straight to streaming. Brits who missed it in cinemas can finally access it on VOD this week. The film itself is something of a pleasant surprise too: a tender-hearted, flannel-cosy romcom – easily the best in the series since the first, 2001’s Bridget Jones’s Diary – now suffused with the gentle melancholy of middle age.Age, of course, is a critical concern of this instalment, whi...

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2 w. ago The controversial truth about the wild dating rule that men should date half their age plus seven

As long as the concept of 'dating' has existed, so have 'rules' for how people should conduct themselves.

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3 w. ago Love, actually: How intimacy survives marriage and motherhood | Saman Shad

The key isn’t chasing some impossible ideal of passion that never fades, but learning to appreciate love in all its evolving formsThe first thing a friend did when I told her the title of my book was laugh. “The Sex Lives of Married Women?” She asked. “You mean The No Sex Lives of Married Women.”I laughed too. She wasn’t wrong – married people aren’t exactly known for their thriving sex lives. And I suspect the only couples reliably having sex must be the ones who have scheduled it into their Google calendars, probably in a shared folder alongside “Bunnings trip” and “remortgage review”. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Lanarkshire MSP urges UK Government to extend maternity pay to support parents and children

Gillian Mackay, who is expecting her first child this summer, has urged the UK Government to give mothers everywhere the gift of more time with their loved ones by expanding support for statutory maternity, paternity and shared parental leave to cover 52 weeks full pay.

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3 w. ago The £1 supermarket item used by gardeners which can keep plants alive longer

Flowers are a popular Mother's Day gift and this household item can help keep them fresh

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3 w. ago Amy Hart shares 'proudest moment' about son Stanley and why she can't wait for second baby

Love Island star Amy Hart became a mother for the first time in 2023, and shared the ins and outs of parenthood, marrying Sam Rason, and the reason they're so excited for baby number two

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3 w. ago ‘I go for the jugular’: Carrie Coon on White Lotus, female friendship and toxic politics

Fearsomely authentic, Carrie Coon has dazzled in a host of roles, from the Leftovers to Gone Girl and Fargo. With the latest season of the White Lotus glueing us to our screens, she talks about US politics, freedom and finding her voiceCarrie Coon is done with small talk. “I tend to go right for the jugular,” she grins. The time for conversations about the weather and I like your shoes has passed – now, she says, is a time for talk that is large and unwieldy and circles the question she finds herself asking people a lot which is (she leans in): “What are you afraid of?”She’s at home in New York, in front of a grey screen set up to shoot her nanny’s audition tapes. Her nanny acts, her husband (Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts) acts, their little kids, well, act up – this is a house of love and drama, in which Coon mothers and frets and contemplates the end of the world. She grew up in Ohio, one of five kids – her parents adopted her sister, Morena, when Coon was three. H...

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3 w. ago ‘I go for the jugular’: Carrie Coon on The White Lotus, female friendship and toxic politics

Fearsomely authentic, Carrie Coon has dazzled in a host of roles, from The Leftovers to Gone Girl and Fargo. With the latest season of The White Lotus glueing us to our screens, she talks about US politics, freedom and finding her voiceCarrie Coon is done with small talk. “I tend to go right for the jugular,” she grins. The time for conversations about the weather and I like your shoes has passed – now, she says, is a time for talk that is large and unwieldy and circles the question she finds herself asking people a lot which is (she leans in): “What are you afraid of?”She’s at home in New York, in front of a grey screen set up to shoot her nanny’s audition tapes. Her nanny acts, her husband (Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts) acts, their little kids, well, act up – this is a house of love and drama, in which Coon mothers and frets and contemplates the end of the world. She grew up in Ohio, one of five kids – her parents adopted her sister, Morena, when Coon was three. H...

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3 w. ago Make letterbox flowers look like an expensive bouquet in three simple steps

Flowers and Mother's Day are the perfect combination. If you're looking to get a flowerbox letter as part of your gift, here's the perfect way to assemble it and make it look like an expensive bouquet

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3 w. ago Maya Jama is being followed on Instagram by Ruben Dias' mother

Maya Jama is being followed on Instagram by Ruben Dias' mother, prompting speculation over a relationship between the Love Island host and the Manchester City star.

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