47 m. ago Munroe Bergdorf: ‘The most expensive thing I’ve bought? Gender

The model and activist on grinding her teeth at night, cancel culture and the weird things hotel guests leave behindBorn in Essex, Munroe Bergdorf, 37, studied at the University of Brighton and worked in fashion PR. In 2022, she became the first trans model on the cover of UK Cosmopolitan and in 2023 she published her book Transitional. She hosts the podcast The Way We Are and presents MTV UK’s Queerpiphany. She is a UN Women UK Changemaker and a founding consultant of the UK Diversity and Inclusion Board of L’Oréal Paris. Her latest book is Talk to Me; her documentary, Love & Rage, launched in the UK last month and is available to stream from 14 July. She lives in London.Describe yourself in three words Passionate, loving, driven. Continue reading...

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47 m. ago Iran’s devastation has hardened hearts towards the west – even for those with no love of the state | Hossein Hamdieh

The double standards and hypocrisy used to justify Israel’s aggression will not be forgotten here, or in other countriesA trembling ceasefire has brought a pause to what had become the familiar sounds of explosions over Tehran. I was born in 1988, a year before the Iran-Iraq war came to an end. For my generation, war was something that belonged to the past – an impossible event, until this summer.For 12 days, we lived in the capital under incessant Israeli attacks, and what we saw has changed us for good: dead neighbours, buildings gutted and worry – endless, deep-etched worry – on the faces of people.Hossein Hamdieh holds a joint PhD in Geography and Anthropology from Humboldt University of Berlin and King’s College London. He is currently based in Tehran, where he works as a social researcherDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please ...

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51 m. ago Katie Price seen for the first time since being banned from daughter Princess' 18th birthday as she touches down in London with designer shopping bags following Dubai getaway

The former glamour model, 47, who was returning from her trip to Dubai , dressed down in grey joggers and matching crop top, which was pulled tight over her surgically enhanced assets.

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82 m. ago London Underground live as multiple lines hit with severe delays and closures on London Pride weekend

London Underground live as multiple lines hit with severe delays and closures on London Pride weekend  My London

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90 m. ago Just Got To London Film And Comic Con For The 5th Of July, 2025

Just Got To London Film And Comic Con For The 5th Of July, 2025  Bleeding Cool News

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1 hour ago Live tweets: Can this smart bird feeder bring wildlife to a London flat?

Bird Buddy 2.0 promises HD close-ups of local robins and real-time alerts from your balcony. But in a city of sirens and squirrels, does it work?

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2 h. ago Carlos Alcaraz’s new weapon he’s using at Wimbledon that has him 'performing at 100%'

Carlos Alcaraz will hope for a Wimbledon three-peat this summer, and he has adopted new technology to help him boost his performance at the London-based Grand Slam

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2 h. ago "A swamp of muck and crap": Martin Lewis on how clickbait broke journalism

"A swamp of muck and crap": Martin Lewis on how clickbait broke journalism  London Centric

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2 h. ago 'I visited a secret garden that is a rare hidden haven among the huge towers of London'

'I visited a secret garden that is a rare hidden haven among the huge towers of London'  MyLondon

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2 h. ago Listen to Joey, sport is always trying to tell you something, even by the medium of hot dogs | Barney Ronay

As Joey Chestnut, the Ronaldo of speed eating, regains his world hotdog crown, he’s holding up a mirror to our worldThe Big Dog is back. And the Big Dog is hungry. Hungry, above all, for dogs. Joey Chestnut has fulfilled his sporting destiny by reclaiming his world champion crown at the legendary 4 July hotdog eating contest in Coney Island, New York. Chestnut, AKA The Silent Warrior, is basically the Messi of elite eating. Or rather he’s the Ronaldo, relentless in his perfectionism, possessed of an alluring competitive arrogance, and with the GOAT-level numbers to back it up: winner of the Mustard Belt now 17 times and the world record-holder as of 2021, when he ate 76 hotdogs in 10 minutes, a huge uplift on his debut in 2005 when he ate a frankly pathetic 32 hotdogs.Above all, Chestnut had a point to prove. He was banned from competing last year over a controversial sponsor deal with a plant-based hotdog alternative. Losing the title was a kind of Icarus moment. No one is bigger t...

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2 h. ago Can you see circles or rectangles? And does the answer depend on where you grew up? | Anil Seth

We may believe we see the world exactly as it is – but as studies of optical illusions show, it’s far more complex than thatAnil Seth is a professor of cognitive and computational neuroscience at the University of SussexDo people from different cultures and environments see the world differently? Two recent studies have different takes on this decades-long controversy. The answer might be more complicated, and more interesting, than either study suggests.One study, led by Ivan Kroupin at the London School of Economics, asked how people from different cultures perceived a visual illusion known as the Coffer illusion. They discovered that people in the UK and US saw it mainly in one way, as comprising rectangles – while people from rural communities in Namibia typically saw it another way: as containing circles. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago London’s secret spots: A local’s guide to visiting the capital

This week TravelSmart is out and about in the capital, winding down alleyways, delving into centuries-old pubs and wandering through London’s best food markets.

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3 h. ago From Bentley’s to Cafe Murano: making London’s classic dishes

From Bentley’s to Cafe Murano: making London’s classic dishes  The Times

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3 h. ago Weather: London could be set for third heatwave as 30C temperature returns next week

Temperatures of around 34.7C were recorded at St James’s Park in central London earlier this week

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3 h. ago Inside London Fire Brigade's fight against wildfires amid fears hot summer will spark surge

Exclusive: Britain’s busiest fire and rescue service has warned of the ‘devastating’ impact blazes could have on the city’s parks and wildlife

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3 h. ago Mandarin Oriental, Bangkok: inside the glamorous Thai hotel adored by authors and Hollywood royalty

Everyone from Grace Kelly to Ernest Hemingway has stayed at this Bangkok bolthole — and Mike White penned most of the latest season of the White Lotus here. So what makes it so special? Lydia Swinscoe checks in to find out

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3 h. ago My cultural awakening: a Marina Abramović show helped me to stop hating my abusive father

At an Abramović art takeover I discovered the quiet strength of a political protester from Myanmar. It gave me a new father figure – and unblocked my creativityOn an unseasonably warm day in October 2023, I arrived, ahead of the queues, at London’s Southbank Centre for a conceptual art takeover by the world-famous Marina Abramović Institute.I had recently read Marina’s memoir Walk Through Walls, which had resonated. So, when I’d seen the event advertised – hours-long performances by artists she’d invited, curated and introduced by Marina – I bought a £60 ticket and waited for my time slot to enter the Queen Elizabeth Hall. I hadn’t seen performance art before, and this was due to include her well-known work The Artist Is Present with an artist sitting, static and silent, in a chair all day, as Marina once did for an accumulated 736 hours and 30 minutes at the Museum of Modern Art. I felt certain that it would affect me, I just wasn’t sure how. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Mel B's chequered love life before finding The One – Eddie Murphy row to lawsuit with ex

Spice Girl star, Melanie Brown, is getting married today to hairstylist, Rory McPhee, at St Paul's Cathedral in London following their three-year engagement

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3 h. ago 'Lewis Hamilton found out how I was travelling to London – so he asked me onto his private jet'

Lewis Hamilton will make his British Grand Prix debut as a Ferrari driver at Silverstone, and one of his F1 rivals has been full of praise for the 40-year-old after a trip on his private jet

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3 h. ago Vanessa Feltz shares guilt over shock divorce and not 'shielding my children more'

EXCLUSIVE: As Vanessa Feltz and daughter Saskia Joss launch their podcast on helping children with anxiety, the former This Morning star reflects on her traumatic divorce from Michael Kurer

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