80 m. ago Why opening your window during a shower is the wrong thing to do

While it might seem like a good idea to open a window after a shower, this can actually interfere with the circulation created by extractor fans and introduce cold air that accelerates condensation

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86 m. ago EastEnders' Zoe Slater star addresses 'struggles' with character ahead of soap comeback

Michelle Ryan's Zoe Slater will be reuniting with her mother Kat Slater (Jessie Wallace) two decades after her explosive EastEnders exit

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95 m. ago A Short History of Stupidity by Stuart Jeffries review – comfortably dumb?

From Shakespeare’s fools to Donald Trump, this exhilarating read considers stupidity in its many formsStupidity, no question, can be just as rich and subtle as its opposite. Three and a half decades on, I still sometimes meditate on what a school friend of mine said in a here’s-a-profound-thought tone of voice: “I’d rather be stupid than happy”.In this clever book, Stuart Jeffries starts out at a double disadvantage, though. First: he has an excellently snappy title but it’s open to question whether stupidity can be said to have a history in any meaningful sense. The quality of stupidity is just, sort of, there; and there’s lots of it. Could you write a history of happiness, or bad luck, or knees? You’d be on firmer ground, as he recognises, historicising the concept of stupidity: a short history, in other words, of “stupidity” – how successive societies and thinkers have defined and responded to reason’s derr-brained secret sharer. As an intellectual historian w...

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3 h. ago The best and worst of times: American advertisements of the 1930s – in pictures

It was a decade that saw the end of prohibition but also the start of the Great Depression and the looming threat of war, an unusual period for commerce, summed up in Taschen’s latest look at American ads from a certain era. In All-American Ads of the 30s, colorful advertisements for everything from alcohol to cereal showcase new developments in design and a persistent optimism despite economic concerns. The book will be released in September Continue reading...

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5 h. ago France has a massive debt crisis. So why is it spending billions a year subsidising business? | Alexander Hurst

The government is on the brink of collapse over planned austerity. Instead it must face up to the costs of its unnecessarily rigid labour marketAs someone who has always been against austerity, I find France, with a national debt at 114% of GDP and a budget deficit of 5.8% of GDP, a conundrum. Despite years of denunciation from his left and far-right opponents that Macron has engaged in “ultraneoliberalism”, there hasn’t been any. Not on a macro level, anyway, where both French government spending (57.3% of GDP) and tax receipts (51.4% of GDP) are among the highest in the world, including social spending, which outpaces any of its European neighbours.At the same time, it’s impossible to have spent the past decade in France without encountering the widely shared perception and accusation that public services are in decline. Doctors and nurses denounce a labour shortage in public hospitals; people who live in rural areas denounce the closing of rural train lines; students and academic...

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7 h. ago Vietnam celebrates 80 years since declaring independence with flags, boba tea and a military parade

Vietnam marked its National Day with its largest military parade in decades

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8 h. ago Mamma Mia! Why Celia had to stand for two and a half hours on a train: RICHARD EDEN'S DIARY

She is one of our most distinguished actresses and a familiar face through her roles in films including Mamma Mia 2, Calendar Girls and Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace.

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11 h. ago Jodie Foster, 62, flashes her gray roots while going makeup free... after being a Hollywood blonde for decades

The 62-year-old movie icon made no effort to hide the streaks with a headband or hat as she seemed to be proud of the naturally changing hue of her locks.

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11 h. ago She was a fugitive accused of killing a woman in a 2006 car crash. Two decades later, she’s been captured

Leydis Menendez Abdala, 52, faces charges of vehicular homicide and DUI manslaughter in connection with the 2006 death of 39-year-old Gloria Marcia Hall

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12 h. ago Nestlé boss sacked one year into job after failing to disclose 'romantic relationship' with subordinate

Laurent Freixe worked for the Swiss food giant for four decades before being dismissed this week

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12 h. ago Summer 2025 officially hottest ever in Wales says Met Office

With an average temperature, according to provisional statistics, of 16.06°C in Wales from June, July and August, the figures have beaten a record which stood for three decades.

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13 h. ago Muhammad Ali, Henry Cooper: The fights that made Joe Bugner a heavyweight legend

Bugner fought in four separate decades, racking up an impressive array of opponents. From Ali to Cooper, these are the foes that turned the Hungarian-born fighter into a legend

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13 h. ago Raheem Sterling left in limbo by Chelsea on transfer deadline day as forgotten man seals move

Chelsea have had a very busy transfer deadline day with exits on the agenda but Raheem Sterling now appears to be stranded at Stamford Bridge after failing to find a new club

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14 h. ago I'm a sleep therapist, these five hacks are making your insomnia WORSE

Sleep scientists have long suggested banning all technology before bed and cutting out caffeine as simple ways to combat insomnia. But these are not always effective.

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16 h. ago Leaked ‘Gaza Riviera’ plan dismissed as ‘insane’ attempt to cover ethnic cleansing

Prospectus proposes forced displacement of entire population and puts territory into US trusteeshipA plan circulating in the White House to develop the “Gaza Riviera” as a string of high-tech megacities has been dismissed as an “insane” attempt to provide cover for the large-scale ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian territory’s population.The Washington Post published on Sunday a leaked prospectus for the plan, which would see the forced displacement of Gaza’s entire population of 2 million people, and put the territory into a US trusteeship for at least a decade. Continue reading...

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16 h. ago Rayo Vallecano take Barcelona to the edge as fans rebel against their president | Sid Lowe

The small, proud Madrid club are back in Europe this season but playing against a backdrop of a civil warThe drunk, the brainless and the idle enjoyed this. They had said they wouldn’t sing, but the best nights aren’t planned they just happen, and in the end it was their kind of night. Chaotic, wild, a lot wrong but alright, like a picture of who they are, sticking it to the man up here and down there. Packed into crumbling, filthy stands, Rayo Vallecano’s fans didn’t see their team get a deserved victory against Barcelona on Sunday but on a torn-up, dried-out pitch with not much grass, in a ground where VAR became the latest thing to fail, they did watch them fight and do it their way too, flying into the team with a budget 18 times bigger as if they weren’t big at all. “Fantastic,” Hansi Flick called them.It started as a protest and never stopped being one but it became something else too, something fun; they had been infuriated, worn down over years, and then they had been insult...

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17 h. ago Scientists are BAFFLED by a 'vanishing lake' in Northern Ireland that mysteriously drains and refills itself within hours

Called Loughareema and locally referred to as 'the vanishing lake', the natural feature is capable of a remarkable magic trick.

Science

17 h. ago Animal poo could save millions of humans as scientists tacke killer superbugs

Scientists at the University of Leicester have found that thousands of phages, bacteria eaters, are hidden in animal poo and they're exploring whether it could treat human superbugs

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17 h. ago Travis Kelce chose to marry Katy Perry over Taylor Swift in very awkward resurfaced clip

A decade-old clip of Travis Kelce is sure to make awkward viewing for the NFL star just days after he announced his engagement to Taylor Swift

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17 h. ago Vaping increases risk of stroke by a third in urgent warning to young people

The Mirror attended Europe’s biggest heart conference and heard from scientists who revealed what actually happens to your body when you vape - and it's not good news

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