4 d. ago Dad who's spent £215k inking entire body shares 'most painful' tattoo

Remy, who's known as the world's most tattooed dad, has spent over £215,000 on inkings. He's spent decades transforming his body and has spent a lot of time under the needle

Economics

6 d. ago Nurse shares devastating symptom everyone has days before death

Nurse Julie McFadden has spent years working in end of life care, and says one of the most psychologically taxing parts of her job is when patients suddenly appear to get better

Events

8 d. ago I’ve spent my life fighting bullies. I still believe there’s hope for America | Robert Reich

As a child, an activist, and secretary of labor, I’ve seen the harm bullies cause. Yet I can see what led to Trump’s riseI was born on 24 June 1946, 10 days after the birth of Donald John Trump, 12 days before the birth of George Walker Bush, and 56 days before the birth of William Jefferson Blythe III, whose name was later changed to Bill Clinton.I did not become president. but among my earliest memories is my grandmother, Minnie Reich, telling me that I would become president. I think she was trying to reassure herself that despite my being a runt, fully a head shorter than other little boys, I’d make her proud. Continue reading...

Politics

8 d. ago Coronation Street's Antony Cotton admits 'life is hard' as he marks personal milestone in the Rovers

The ITV soap's Sean Tully actor reflected on marking a huge personal milestone in a place he's spent more than two decades of his life

Politics

8 d. ago Mango salad and crispy fritters: Melissa Hemsley’s recipes for Filipino barbecue sides

A sparkling grilled aubergine, mango and tomato salad, plus crisp sweet potato fritters with a moreish dipping vinegarMy mum is from Manila in the Philippines, but has spent more of her life in the UK. When I’m sad, stressed or out of sorts, it’s my mum’s Filipino food that I crave. As a whole, Filipino food has sometimes unfairly had a reputation for being overly sweet, overly meaty and deep-fried, but with more than 7,000 islands rich in culinary traditions, there are, of course, thousands of dishes to enjoy. Bringing it back to the UK, though, when we dust off the barbecue, picnic blankets and cool bags, there’s nothing better than incorporating these sweet, sour, spicy and salty flavours for parties (or fiestas as they’re called in the Philippines). And if you’re after a sweet, refreshing treat, look out for ube ice-cream, which is gaining popularity in UK. Ube is a sweet purple yam native to the Philippines. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago I was the US labor secretary. Trump’s latest firing undermines a key agency | Robert Reich

The firing of Erika McEntarfer, head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, destroys the credibility of essential informationI spent much of the 1990s as the secretary of labor. One unit of the labor department is the Bureau of Labor Statistics.I was instructed by my predecessors as well as by the White House, and by every labor economist and statistician I came in contact with, that one of my cardinal responsibilities was to guard the independence of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Nurse says she hears 4 final phrases from dying patients in their last moments

End-of-life nurse Julie McFadden has spent 16 years working with dying patients

Events

3 w. ago A Route 66 ghost town was ‘frozen in time’. Is it on the brink of a comeback?

Newberry Springs was almost lost to the desert. But as America’s ‘mother road’ turns 100, locals see hope that the boom times could returnThe tiny desert cafe, caught in a desolate middle between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, had only been open for five minutes when the first customers of the day ambled in from the already blistering heat.It was a Friday morning in June, sand swirling outside across the cracked street and towards the Bagdad Cafe’s front door. In the same parking lot, a 1950s-era sign advertised a motel that no longer exists. In the distance, only a few surviving businesses remained: a small community center, a veterans organization and a long-standing roadhouse bar popular with locals. A few miles to the north, an entire neighborhood was abandoned in the 1990s after mounds of blowing sand swallowed it whole; today, only rooftops and chimneys peek out from the towering sand dunes. Continue reading...

Politics

3 w. ago Tragic spiral that caused 'reclusive' heiress to $2.7 billion fortune to retreat into the shadows: How Athina Onassis was haunted by childhood grief and humiliating heartbreak

She was born into enormous wealth yet billionaire heiress Athina Onassis - the only surviving member of the 'cursed' Greek shipping dynasty - has spent her life shunning the limelight.

Economics

3 w. ago I couldn't cope with life as Ronnie Corbett's daughter. I spent 15 months in psychiatric units. But now I'm a therapist myself... and starting a new career as a stand

Perched on his famous armchair at the front of the London Palladium stage, Ronnie Corbett spied movement in the stalls just as he was about to launch into his story.

Politics

4 w. ago Diane Abbott says she stands by racism comments that led to suspension from Labour

MP says it is ‘silly’ to claim racism over skin colour is the same as other types of racism – but she has spent her life fighting antisemitismDiane Abbott has said she has no regrets about comments on racism that led to her year-long suspension from the Labour party.The veteran Labour MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington was disciplined for writing a letter to the Observer in April 2023 arguing that people of colour experienced racism “all their lives” and in a different way to Jewish people, Irish people and Travellers. Continue reading...

Events

last month ‘A relentless, destructive energy’: inside the trial of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon

An intimate account of an unprecedented trialIf we believe her parents, Constance Marten and Mark Gordon, a baby girl was born on Christmas Eve, 2022, in the upstairs bedroom of Woodcutters Cottage in Haltwhistle, Northumberland. Her mother knelt against the double bed and gave birth without assistance or complication. The baby spent the first days of her life in the small stone-terraced cottage and then began her travels, mostly carried by her mother in a sling, hidden under a burgundy puffer jacket. She travelled far for a newborn, passing through bus stations and port towns, hotels and cafes, cities and fields, from north to south, west to east. We know she lived for at least two weeks, but we don’t know, and can never know, precisely how she died. She was called Victoria. Continue reading...

Politics

last month Is this why Tatler 'It Girl' turned baby killer Constance Marten's life spun out of control? The months she spent living with an African church

Lagos is a long way from the aristocratic world in which Constance Marten grew up - both geographically and culturally.

Events

last month Hollywood actor Sean Bean blasts plans to build thousands of houses on green belt near his hometown

The actor wrote: 'I would like to register my objection for the proposed mass building in the Handsworth area of Sheffield, where I grew up and spent some of the best years of my life.'

Society