Новости за 21.12.2018

YouTube sensation LadBaby has claimed the Christmas number one in a shock victory. 

‘I’m A Celebrity’ star Emily Atack has claimed she has been snubbed from the upcoming ‘The Inbetweeners’ reunion.

Gatwick Airport has reopened after operators were reassured that military measures now in place mean it is safe to fly despite a confirmed sighting of a drone.

After a few days of yet another mental health crisis reaching its peak, you are unsure what to do. It’s the middle of the night when services are closed. Waiting until the morning to speak to your primary mental health worker during office hours is too long to wait, mainly to avoid a crisis progressing further. You feel unsafe, at risk and unable to trust yourself.

Is celebrity culture over? Every now and then, an influential cultural commentator seems to say it is. For instance, in 2017 Nick Bilton with Vanity Fair wrote: “Why Hollywood As We Know It Is Already Over.” In 2016, Amanda Dobbins with The Ringer wrote about “The End of Celebrity As We Know It,” while The Economist ran a piece on “Fading stars: Hollywood studios can no longer bank on the pulling-power of famous actors.” In 2009 Daniel Henninger wrote for the Wall Street Journalabout how “The... Читать дальше...

A man who stabbed his seven months pregnant girlfriend to death with a pair of scissors has been found guilty of her murder.

Stowaways on a cargo ship in the Thames Estuary have threatened the crew, who have locked themselves on the bridge of the vessel.

Police have interviewed a person under caution in connection with the alleged racist abuse of Raheem Sterling during Manchester City’s defeat by Chelsea earlier this month.

Unsurprisingly, the Conservative government laid out a post-Brexit immigration policy designed with flaws and short-sighted thinking. This is the party that has spent years setting ridiculous arbitrary figures for immigration numbers and then tried to explain their failures.

Cervical screening, put simply, saves lives. It stops 75% of cervical cancers from ever developing and is a free health test for every woman. So, why is attendance at an all-time low?

Festivities, family, friends, fun and food are all synonymous with the Christmas period. A chocolate for advent everyday beforehand; mince pies, cheese, and mulled wine in the build-up; selection boxes for breakfast; mountains of roast potatoes, pigs in blankets, Christmas and Yorkshire puds for lunch, and turkey and stuffing sandwiches well into the New Year are all the things most of us have spent October and November dreaming of. But for the 1.6 million people in the UK suffering with an Eating Disorder... Читать дальше...

Recent data shows there were almost 600 homeless deaths in 2018 according to the Office for National Statistics. Of course, charities have condemned ‘horrifying’ number of deaths on streets and in shelters. As a charity founder, I can say I’m among them.

With Christmas just around the corner, there are scenes of happy families on TV, family gatherings in restaurants and pictures of togetherness everywhere. But for as many as one in five people who survived abuse in childhood, including myself, the festive season is marred by reunions with child abusers, family estrangement, or returning to the place where the abuse happened. Simply put, the holidays are hard for us survivors.

This month, in Katowice, world leaders negotiated the implementation of the Paris Agreement. We collectively pledged to stop climate change before it would become too dangerous. No one will deny that since then, times have changed. They have become even more uncertain. Extreme weather events have occurred in 2018 across all continents, often with devastating effects: forest fires in California in autumn, typhoons in Japan and Indonesia, extreme drought in many parts of Europe... The reality of climate change is closing in. Читать дальше...

In the US, opioids claimed 70,000 lives last year; suicide took another 47,000, while there were a staggering 1.3million attempts by people to end their own lives. Meanwhile, new reports on both sides of the Atlantic show increases in life expectancy are slowing – or worse, reversing – as diseases linked to lifestyle factors expedite our mortality. Manypeople believe these are all symptoms of something deeper: a loneliness epidemic that started decades ago and has its roots in loss of identity, solidarity and meaning. Читать дальше...

This week, Britain’s broadcasting regulator Ofcom published the results of ten investigations into the Kremlin-funded broadcaster, RT. Seven of its programmes were found in breach of Ofcom’s impartiality rules, demonstrating what the regulator considers to be a ‘serious failure of compliance’.

The number of women ex-prisoners who have been sent back to jail for breaching probation rules has more than doubled in three years.

“I have no excitement about going out. I got no place to go and an ex-partner who is very violent.”

It’s probably too big to fit in your fridge - but it’s bound to cause a stir, not least because you risk knocking your guests out when you accidentally swing a Valdo Prosecco jeroboam around this Christmas. 

Bill Turnbull has admitted he has gone through “dark” times following his diagnosis with prostate and bone cancer. 

Police hunting the Gatwick Airport drone fiend have a list of “persons of interest” as the search for a suspect goes on.

In the summer of 2016 Prime Minister Theresa May stood outside 10 Downing Street and announced she was committed to fighting for working people.  To try and overcome the collective eye role of the British public, she followed this up a few months later with the announcement of the Taylor Review on modern employment.  The review was tasked with making recommendations, among other things, on how to deal with the problem of exploitation in the so-called “gig economy”.  The Tories then committed in... Читать дальше...

A manhunt is underway in central Vienna after a person was shot dead and another injured, Austrian police have said.

Christmas Eve is the day your elf waves goodbye to your kids – he flies back to the north pole to let Santa know how well (!) your children have been behaving.