33 h. ago Revealed: The very glamorous new life of Millennium Dome raider immortalised on Netflix... but his accomplices didn't fare so well

Aldo Ciarrocchi, who now enjoys a very middle class lifestyle, was a key member of the mob which planned to steal the Millennium Star diamond in 2000 in the doomed raid.

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3 d. ago Sunday with Paul Chowdhry: ‘I’ll have a big brunch, then lie around watching YouTube’

The comedian talks about visiting farmers’s markets now that he’s middle-class, getting ghosted by his cleaner and going to the gym with other losers and lonersSunday highlights? The farmers’ market in north London, now that I’ve worked my way into being middle-class. I’ll buy smoked trout, organic chickens, pheasant, vegetables and a very good Chinese chilli oil.How do you get there? On one of those electric bikes, like Uber cyclists. I’m usually stealthed up with a mask, else people go: ‘There’s Paul Chowdhry on a bike. What you doing on a bike, bruv?’Do you cook? I live on my own, so I have no choice. I’ll have a big brunch, then lie around watching YouTube.What do you watch? That’s a good question. Nowadays, you don’t even know. You just scroll through stuff. Then I might go to the gym.Who’s at the gym Sunday? Losers, loners, and reclusives, like me.Sunday evening? I’ll make dinner from what I bought from the farmers’ market. Before freezing most of the stuff you think: ‘Might a...

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1 week ago Sleeping on the job: New NHS boss Sir Jim Mackey tells MPs at 11.53am he'll 'pick up the pace' of reform

Snoozing in first class in the middle of the working day, this is the new head of the NHS hired to tackle 'inefficiency'.Sir Jim Mackey vowed to MPs on Tuesday he would 'pick up the pace' of reform.

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1 week ago 90s pop royalty B*Witched huge admission about big moment from the past

In the 90s, B*Witched were the ultimate Irish girl band, dominating the charts with their catchy tunes and denim-clad image. And 25 years on from their debut, the iconic group are still going strong - and even releasing new music

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2 w. ago Nadine Coyle vows to 'live her life to the fullest' and 'have as much fun as possible' after losing Girls Aloud bandmate Sarah Harding

Nadine, Cheryl, Nicola Roberts and Kimberley Walsh made up the iconic girl band alongside Sarah until her tragic death from breast cancer in 2021.

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2 w. ago Furious neighbourhood row on 'nice middle class estate' over new 'prison wall'

A homeowner raged his neighbours' complaints about his wall were 'nonsense' - some residents even slammed the local council and claimed the controversial wall shouldn't have been given planning permission

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2 w. ago Yes, I have just done a naked forward roll. But there was a good reason | Adrian Chiles

There I was, lying in bed and worrying I’d lost a basic life skill. Can you blame me for putting it to the test?When I was in the first year at middle school, in Miss Hale’s class, my parents returned from a parents’ evening looking disappointed. My nine-year-old self picked up on this. It wasn’t my schoolwork: that was OK. It was that the teacher had revealed that in PE I was the only one in the class who couldn’t do a forward roll.This was true. It wasn’t that I was physically incapable – I was in the school football team and, without wishing to boast, probably the ninth-quickest runner. I just had this mental block. I couldn’t bring myself to do it. The idea of the world momentarily going upside down was too much for me. The prospect of such disorientation was unbearable. If only Miss Hale had taken me to one side and said: “Look, you’re overthinking this – and, believe you me, if you let it, overthinking will blight your life.” But she didn’t, because teachers didn’t talk like t...

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2 w. ago The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits review – a quietly brilliant midlife roadtrip

Once your kids are at university, what’s next for you? This compelling depiction of life at a crossroads is a male counterpart to Miranda July’s All FoursBen Markovits’s quietly excellent new novel begins with the most mundane of middle-class crises. The book’s narrator, 55-year-old law professor Tom Layward, is taking his youngest child to university. For Tom and his wife Amy, the major tasks of parenting are about to vanish in the rear view mirror. The question is: what’s next?It’s a moment of change and re-evaluation for any couple. But within Tom and Amy’s marriage an unexploded bomb is ticking. Tom tells us in the first paragraph that, 12 years earlier, Amy had an affair. He managed his heartbreak by making a deal with himself that he would leave when his youngest went to college. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago My life in class limbo: am I working class or insufferably bourgeois?

I have two degrees, two books to my name and I write for the Guardian. Yet I spent time in care, live at home and struggle for money. Can Karl Marx help me make sense of myself?I have been obsessed with and confused by social class all my life. Both of my grandparents grew up in Liverpool in the 1930s in traditionally working-class households. They were clever and conscientious and managed to earn scholarships to university, eventually becoming teachers. My parents have university degrees and own property; one of them is now a judge. To most people, all these things place me squarely and categorically in the middle class. But I was in special educational schools from the age of nine, spent part of my childhood in care, left education altogether at 14 and collected the dole until getting my first job in a cotton mill. All these things make me a dyed-in-the-wool prole.And yet I have two degrees, I have written two books and I freelance for the Guardian – you can’t get m...

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3 w. ago Best of Mumsnet REVEALED: From why a husband eating a Pot Noodle was so revolting to odd nickname for sex

Nothing reveals what really irritates middle-class mums quite like Mumsnet.

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3 w. ago Spice Girl Mel C drops bombshell hint band will tour for milestone anniversary

Mel C has teased fans with the idea of a Spice Girls reunion after she recently hinted that the iconic noughties pop stars want to do "something special" and mark a momentous occasion

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4 w. ago Spice Girls reunion: Everything you need to know as Mel C drops major hint

Here’s what you really, really want to hear — the renowned girl band could be poised to announce ‘something special’

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4 w. ago Remember Monday to commemorate Eurovision in very special way – even if they lose

The country girl band already have five identical inkings each and they will add to it if they do particularly well, or badly, in Basel

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last month The VERY middle class parents of punk girl band who sing 'Filthy Rich Nepo Baby', rant against the rich and are embarrased to be English

A British punk band given taxpayer cash despite saying it is 'embarrassing to be from England' also enjoyed leg-ups from their very middle class parents while railing against 'Nepo babies', it can be revealed.

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