28 h. ago Jessie J reveals how string of heartbreaking health woes 'kept her balanced'

The 37-year-old singer was at Advertising Week Europe in London on Wednesday when she discussed her health woes, which included a heart disease, a stroke and a miscarriage

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30 h. ago PETER HITCHENS: Britain's police forces are a pathetic failure and a dark menace to our society. This is my plan to finally fix the problem

We pay these people, and we pay them a lot, as your council tax bill will tell you if you look. So why do they treat us as a nuisance and worse?

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32 h. ago Jessie J opens up on health issues as she says 'I've lost a lot of people'

The Price Tag singer, 37, has battled with ill health throughout her life

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33 h. ago Jessie J says health troubles kept her ‘balanced’ ahead of new music launch

The Price Tag singer, 37, has battled with ill health throughout her life.

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34 h. ago Who is Alexander Dugin? ‘Putin’s brain’ who just endorsed Donald Trump

The ultra-nationalist says Trump’s America has a lot more in common with Putin’s Russia than most people think

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61 h. ago What to see in Scotland in 2025: The 25 “Best sights for tourists” according to Scotsman readers

Scotland is on a lot of people’s bucket lists and if that includes you then these are the incredible Scottish locations you have to check out - as recommended by our Scotsman readers.

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3 d. ago Zadie Smith on the magic of Tracy Chapman: ‘She didn’t just look like us – she was singing our songs’

The novelist was just 12 when the ex-busker stunned a mammoth crowd at the Free Nelson Mandela concert – and sent everyone racing to Woolworths for her astonishing debut album. Its simple, honest, perfect songs of protest have mesmerised the writer ever sinceOn 11 June 1988, I was 12 and sitting with my family watching the Free Nelson Mandela Concert on TV. As a clan, we were old hands at trying to free Mandela, having done our fair share of marching and boycotting over the years, and this concert felt like the culmination of all that. There was a lot of excitement in the room: we squeezed on to the sofa and opened the windows wide. (If the wind’s blowing in the right direction, you can hear a Wembley audience roar from Willesden.)Many world-famous musicians played that day. Most of them I don’t remember, but one I will never forget: Tracy Chapman. I think a lot of people feel that way, though when you rewatch the footage you realise what she was up against at the time. Nobody cheer...

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3 d. ago Undiagnosed entertainment: how Hollywood awkwardly dodges autism

Eccentric, blunt-speaking characters who present as being on the spectrum are everywhere on our screens – but why are their creators so reluctant to state it openly?I received my autism diagnosis about a decade into my career as a comedian and about three decades into being alive. In the eyes of some of the frothier comment section trolls, being a comedian means that I can’t be autistic, despite the likes of Fern Brady and Stewart Lee proving otherwise. This is because people are keener on stereotypes than admitting they know nothing about autism – why is the general level of knowledge so poor?With Elon Musk and Robert F Kennedy Jr doing their best to make autism terrifying again, either by implying that it causes sieg heiling or by bringing back the MMR autism panic of the 1990s (along with actual measles), it struck me that we autistic people don’t have a lot of reliable representation to fall back on. There’s Rain Man, of course, and Ben Af...

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3 d. ago Trump official gives clearest indication yet that there are plans to put Donald Trump’s face on Mount Rushmore

President Trump’s daughter-in-law says ‘a lot of people wonder’ whether his face will be added to the South Dakota monument

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4 d. ago Five reveal sad reality of boyband success after star was left 'flat broke'

EXCLUSIVE: Despite being one of the biggest boybands in the 90s, Five have admitted people would be surprised by their time in the limelight, with J saying 'people will think that a lot more came our way'

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4 d. 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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4 d. 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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7 d. ago Biden prosecutor Jessica Aber's tragic health battle before she was found dead in her home after resigning on Trump's first day

Family members of Jessica Aber, a Biden-appointed prosecutor who resigned on President Donald Trump's first day in office, have revealed the tragic health condition she had suffered for years.

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2 w. ago How to spot a booking scam as fraudsters use cunning new ways to grab your cash

Holiday scams can cost people a lot of money, in addition to stress and it is important to understand how to best protect yourself and your personal information

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2 w. ago 'You can't help but notice there are a lot of people walking around with missing limbs'

Maria Romanenko and her partner Jez Myers are now running their second trip to Lviv in Ukraine to show Mancunians the rich culture and history of the city

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2 w. ago Lorraine Kelly: Working class being ‘left behind’ in TV diversity push

‘You’re cutting an awful lot of people out,’ she says

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2 w. ago The plan for new neighbourhood of 400 homes on 'treasured green belt' upsetting a lot of people

Plans to build a new neighbourhood could be approved next week

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3 w. ago My pet rat is dying. I can’t stop thinking about all the things he taught me | Joseph Earp

Owning and caring for a creature takes us outside of ourselves – not just us insular weirdo artists, but all peopleI’m a writer and painter, two professions with the occupational risk of turning you, to put it delicately, a little bit weird. Insularity is the name of the game with both – you have to spend a lot of time inside, not really talking to people, trapped totally in your own head.For some time now, the solution to this problem has been my rat, Bob. I’ve had him for two years, and in that time he has been my sounding board, creative confidant and unwavering ally. I’ve written two books with him in the room and I am certain he knows when I’m writing, because he has to deal with me hugging him more, as I try to take breaks from the cruel demands of a first draft. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Wrestler arrested over disturbing machete incident after stripping and stabbing van

Police were called when wrestler known as 'Charlie Tiger' began running around a parking lot naked and threatened people in a store with a machete

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3 w. ago ‘I’m all for strange’: Sister Midnight’s Karan Kandhari on his punk rock debut, two decades in the making

The director talks about his genre-trampling film Sister Midnight, the hilarious and gory story of a female force of nature stifled in an arranged marriageOne of the most powerful scenes in Sister Midnight is also a quiet and unexpected one. The protagonist, Uma, sits idly with her neighbour Sheetal outside their adjoining homes in Mumbai. To pass the time, the bored housewives pretend to be divorcing one another. Amid the role play, Uma turns to her confidant and says: “I’m tainted goods, I’m a divorcee. But it’s OK. I’ll wear this like a badge and go forth to the hills, form a manless nation and build a monolithic altar to the pussy.”The statement captures what is so provocative about the film – it turns societal norms on their head and dares to ask: what if we did things differently? At its core, the film feels quite feminist. “That word comes up a lot,” says director Karan Kandhari. “I’m happy people can see the film like that, but I didn’t set out to make something with an agen...

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