8 h. ago Secret love letter shows softer side of Cambridge spy ring’s alleged fifth man

Intimate correspondence between John Cairncross and Gloria Barraclough features in National Archives exhibitionIt was a love letter written by one of the more important British spies of the cold war that made Tom Brass realise he had never fully known his mother.The spy in question was John Cairncross, the alleged fifth man in the Cambridge spy ring, whose spycraft also helped the Soviets win the Battle of Kursk and turn the tide of the second world war. Continue reading...

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67 h. ago ‘I’ve had to fight tooth and nail’: Amber Davies on Strictly trolls, Love Island hunks – and her Legally Blonde no

She started out performing in her living room, charging £1.50 a ticket. Now, having blazed through Love Island and silenced her Strictly haters, the Welsh sensation is really hitting the big timeAt the end of last year’s Strictly Come Dancing semi-final, pro dancer Nikita Kuzmin made a tearful appeal to camera, “I speak to the audience at home: guys, just please, please be kind!” His celebrity partner, Love Island winner, Dancing on Ice contestant and musical theatre actor Amber Davies, had been getting a lot of flak online. “You have had so much hate, every single day,” said Kuzmin.Isn’t it crazy that we have to remind people to be nice to other humans who are just doing their job, I say to Davies, when we meet in a London hotel bar. “I genuinely think it’s getting worse,” says Davies, who has been in the public eye since 2017. “With TikTok, when people jump on a bandwagon, they go for it,” she adds. “But I feel like the nasty comments I was getting [on Strictly] weren’t actually c...

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6 d. ago Love Island All Stars' first 2026 couples in full as bombshell stirs the pot

Maya Jama announced the first couples chosen by public vote on Love Island All Stars, with drama unfolding as a bombshell entered the villa

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6 d. ago Love Island All Stars’ first 2026 couples revealed after fan vote

The first Love Island couples for All Stars season three have been revealed

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6 d. ago Love Island All Stars 'at risk of cancellation' after 'touch

EXCLUSIVE: Love Island All Stars 2026 faced a serious setback after the launch date was pushed following wildfires in South Africa that ravaged through the landscape

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6 d. ago Love Island 2026 LIVE: Belle Hassan leads cast as All Stars assemble

There's a huge amount of kissing but also a brutal bust-up. Ah, Love Island, we've missed you.

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7 d. ago Love Island: All Stars 2026 launch date announced after wildfire postponement

The ITV series was originally due to get underway on Monday evening prior to the wildfires causing a delay

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7 d. ago I am terrible at football – but love playing. Can I change my game completely in my mid

For fifteen years I have been devoted to the sport, but can still barely tackle or shoot. I decided to get a coach and give him the challenge of a lifetimeIf I told you I have played football for 15 years, you’d probably assume that I’m decent. Unfortunately, I am not. I have three left feet and a not-very-convincing shot on goal. Despite how many years I have put into the sport, these things show little to no improvement.I play football for the joy of it: the rush of the first whistle; the exhilaration of making a successful tackle or a clever pass; and the feeling of all fears and concerns melting away the moment the game starts. So until recently, the fact that I’m so bad at it occurred to me as, at worst, incidental. I grew up at a time when football was largely considered a men’s sport. In the 90s, there were about 80 girls’ football clubs in England (there are more than 12,000 now); there wasn’t a women’s premier league until 1994; and by the time I was in my 20s, boring jokes...

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7 d. ago ‘I fell in love with him on the spot’: Alan Rickman remembered, 10 years after his death

On the anniversary of his death aged 69, stars from Sigourney Weaver to Sharleen Spiteri, Tom Felton to Harriet Walter, remember the wit, charm and endless generosity of one of Britain’s best-loved actorsRuby Wax Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Love Machines by James Muldoon review – the risks and rewards of getting intimate with AI

The sociology professor is suitably comfortable with AI helpers that he creates his own – it’s their inventors’ motives and unregulated environment he argues we should be concerned aboutIf much of the discussion of AI risk conjures doomsday scenarios of hyper-intelligent bots brandishing nuclear codes, perhaps we should be thinking closer to home. In his urgent, humane book, sociologist James Muldoon urges us to pay more attention to our deepening emotional entanglements with AI, and how profit-hungry tech companies might exploit them. A research associate at the Oxford Internet Institute who has previously written about the exploited workers whose labour makes AI possible, Muldoon now takes us into the uncanny terrain of human-AI relationships, meeting the people for whom chatbots aren’t merely assistants, but friends, romantic partners, therapists, even avatars of the dead.To some, the idea of falling in love with an AI chatbot, or confiding your deepest secrets to one, might...

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8 d. ago Love Machines by James Muldoon review – inside the uncanny world of AI relationships

A sociologist talks to the people putting their faith – and their hearts – in the hands of robotsIf much of the discussion of AI risk conjures doomsday scenarios of hyper-intelligent bots brandishing nuclear codes, perhaps we should be thinking closer to home. In his urgent, humane book, sociologist James Muldoon urges us to pay more attention to our deepening emotional entanglements with AI, and how profit-hungry tech companies might exploit them. A research associate at the Oxford Internet Institute who has previously written about the exploited workers whose labour makes AI possible, Muldoon now takes us into the uncanny terrain of human-AI relationships, meeting the people for whom chatbots aren’t merely assistants, but friends, romantic partners, therapists, even avatars of the dead.To some, the idea of falling in love with an AI chatbot, or confiding your deepest secrets to one, might seem mystifying and more than a little creepy. But Muldoon refuses to belittle...

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9 d. ago Hopeful signs for London Stock Market but still so much more to do

I would dearly love 2026 to end with more UK quoted companies than it started

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9 d. ago Nikki Glaser mocks Leonardo DiCaprio over his young girlfriend at Golden Globes and his reaction is priceless

Nikki Glaser showed no mercy when Leonardo DiCaprio's love life came under the spotlight at the 2026 Golden Globes.

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1 week ago Golden Globes 2026 LIVE updates: Love Island's Maura Higgins leads celeb arrivals

The Golden Globes are kicking off this evening, with some of the biggest names in entertainment arriving in Hollywood for the ceremony – but who will take home an award?

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1 week ago Sex professor named six top tips for a better love life in 2026

A professor has gathered her top tips from teaching about sex for 15 years to help us all have a better time in the bedroom in 2026, including her science-based advice on the 'magic frequency'

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1 week ago Love Island: All Stars 2026 officially postponed as crew evacuated

Maya Jama was set to welcome two former winners for the third season of the ITV dating series

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1 week ago Love Island All Stars 2026 Tactics: Here's how all 12 former islanders will approach the show

The contestants seem to have learned lessons from their last outings on the hit dating show.

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1 week ago Love Island All Stars beauty was put through 'hell and horror' after villa exit

EXCLUSIVE: One Love Island All Stars 2026 contestant has admitted that since she left the ITV villa the first time, she's experienced "hell and horror" but is now ready for change

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2 w. ago Deeply cynical truth that blows apart Timothee Chalamet's declaration of love for Kylie Jenner at Critics Choice Awards as insiders reveal their shock conversation about having CHILDREN

Timothee Chalamet's public declaration of love for Kylie Jenner undoubtedly stole the show at the Critics Choice Awards on Sunday. A word of caution, however...

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2 w. ago I got married twice in my 20s. Now I’m in love with my midlife situationship | Natasha Ginnivan

Bored, lonely and emerging from lockdown, a less-traditional relationship was just what I was looking forWe were just two midlifers in our 50s who met back in 2020 using a popular dating app. Bored, lonely and emerging from lockdown we jumped at the chance for an outing. We had our first date at a trendy, dimly-lit Japanese restaurant and bar in Sydney’s Surry Hills. By our second lychee martini, we became aware of some mutual connections that we knew and discovered that we had actually grown up in the same place.There was an immediate feeling of familiarity and a shared sense of humour that clicked without effort. We were in no rush for anything too serious. In fact, it would take another five outings, including antique-trawling for some 70s-inspired crockery, before things would develop into more of a romantic connection. Continue reading...

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