BBC Inside London’s first romance-only bookshop, Sarah Maxwell stands in the “smut hut” – a section dedicated to her store’s more erotic titles. Surrounded by shelves stacked with brightly coloured paperbacks – with titles including Just For the Summer, Swept Away and The Friendship Fling – young women are milling around, chatting and flicking through...
Music superstars J Balvin, Doja Cat and Tems will perform a half-time show at the Club World Cup final in New Jersey next month, as football follows the example of the Super Bowl. Colombian singer Balvin, US rapper Doja Cat and Nigerian star Tems will cram their performances into the 15-minute half-time break. The line-up...
Not one, not two, but three of my books have been removed and banned from the United States Naval Academy’s Nimitz Library by the order of President Donald Trump’s appointed defense secretary and former Fox News host Pete Hegseth. The New York Times reports that 378 others were also removed. Naval students and sailors must...
Getty Images The NHS in England is planning “previously unthinkable” cuts to try to balance the books, health bosses say. Services including diabetes care for young people, rehab centres and talking therapies are in the firing line, according to NHS Providers, which represents health managers. Staff, including doctors and nurses, also face the axe –...
The latest salvo from the Trump administration fired at Harvard comes only in part from the current standoff over anti-Semitic intimidation campaigns and discriminatory practices. Five years ago, Trump’s team opened an investigation into Harvard’s revenue streams over concerns of full reporting as well as foreign influence in Academia. Joe Biden buried that probe, officially...
Community members from all ages in the small town of Chelsea, Michigan, a small town of 5,000 people, rallied to help a bookshop move to a new location by forming a human chain. A total of 9,100 books were moved one-by-one to the new retail space, about a block away. Read full article at source...
The chancellor’s Spring Statement dominates the front pages. The i Paper reports that Rachel Reeves refused to rule out future tax rises in the Autumn budget, noting her announcement of sharp cuts to benefits could push 250,000 people into poverty. It also says that the cuts come amid a struggle to find any economic growth...
