Cross of St. George flags, adorn the balconies and the roads across the Kirby Estate in Bermondsey, southeast London on St George’s Day in 2019. Keir Starmer has called for the English flag to be “reclaimed” from the rioters who went on the rampage in the wake of last summer’s Southport killings. In comments marking…

Joe Locke and Kit Connor share a kiss as Charlie and Nick in Heartstopper Heartstopper fans had been growing a little antsy over Netflix’s lack of updates about whether the award-winning show would be returning to our screens in the future. Season three of the much-loved teen drama began streaming last year, with Alice Oseman…

Diana Johnson and Wilfred Frost on Sky News. A Labour minister clashed with Wilfred Frost on Sky News amid calls for Keir Starmer to apologise after he U-turned on trans rights. The prime minister changed his position on the issue following last week’s Supreme Court ruling which said a woman is determined by biological sex….

David Lammy, Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Marco Rubio Donald Trump’s secretary of state Marco Rubio has dealt a major blow to the peace process for Ukraine by pulling out of today’s talks in London. Senior ministers from the UK, US, France, Germany and Ukraine were meant to gather in the British capital today to discuss how…

Tom Hardy at the premiere of his new movie Havoc Tom Hardy has set the record straight about speculation he was once in the running to play Mr Darcy in the 2005 film adaptation of Pride & Prejudice. In fact, the Oscar nominee never even made it to the audition process, after receiving a rather…

Nicola Coughlan at a screening of The Wedding Banquet last month Nicola Coughlan has helped raise more than £100K for the trans and gender non-conforming charity Not A Phase. Last week, the Bridgerton star reacted to the Supreme Court ruling in the UK that the definition of a woman now only covers those assigned female…

The “ostrich effect” is named for a common myth about these flightless birds. People today have access to more information than ever before in human history, but that doesn’t mean we want to know everything.  In fact, many folks lean into a common tendency called “the ostrich effect” when confronted with a prospect or news…

Angela Eagle and Nick Timothy. A Labour minister slapped down a Tory MP with a devastating reminder of his own time in government. Nick Timothy has tabled a written parliamentary question asking the Home Office how many illegal immigrants had been given permission to work in the UK in every year since 2020. Answering for…

Vladimir Putin and one of his top supporters Sergei Markov One of Vladimir Putin’s allies claimed Moscow is “liberating” Russians from Ukraine with the ongoing conflict. Sergei Markov, a former adviser to the Russian president, tried to defend Putin’s three-year war by saying the invasion is not about “territory” but “stopping political repression”. Putin currently…

Closeup of an eye You may already know that the size of your temporalis muscle, which helps to open and close your jaw, has been linked to dementia risk.  That’s because a smaller temporalis is often a sign of muscle loss (sarcopenia), which seems to be linked to the condition.  Additionally, sight loss has long been…