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Continue reading...Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:39:02 GMT
As weight loss drugs have risen all around the world, it has reshaped users’ relationships for better and for worse
As GLP-1 use continues to rise in the US and the UK, people’s bodies are being reshaped – as are their relationships.
“Relationships tend to develop a sense of equilibrium and predictability over time,” says Dr Lindsey Berisha, a licensed clinical psychologist who has worked with clients using GLP-1s for over 10 years. “When one partner undergoes a significant change, it can shift that equilibrium, and even positive change can create uncertainty for both partners.”
Continue reading...Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:00:03 GMT
Leader of the opposition rehashes last week’s questions as she comes up short against a PM who preaches consensus politics
The case of the dog that didn’t bark in the night. Sometimes prime minister’s questions are as notable for the topics that the leader of the opposition doesn’t ask about as for the ones she does. So you have to assume Kemi Badenoch now realises she was on the wrong side of public opinion on the weekend’s protests and the government’s decision to impose sanctions on Israeli illegal settlements.
I guess it’s hard to be too vocal when you fundamentally agree with the rioters. And maybe she has noticed that many of her own party are a little queasy about Palestinian land being seized and people being killed. And no reaction from the US about the sanctions.
Continue reading...Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:59:50 GMT
US president often brings up al-Qaida attack that struck his home town New York City almost 25 years ago
Donald Trump often brings up September 11, the devastating al-Qaida attack that struck his home town New York City almost 25 years ago.
His recollections of that day have repeatedly included exaggerations and falsehoods – including this week, when he shared an anecdote at a White House event commemorating the attacks that appears to be untrue.
Continue reading...Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:44:53 GMT
The screwball French comedy is back as a film that actually works, thanks to putting Andréa and Noémie at the heart of chaotic events and bringing all the old faces back
At last: a beloved-TV-show-to-film-spinoff that doesn’t suck! The original French series is a screwball-speed office comedy about a boutique Parisian talent agency, and was a ratings and critical success in its homeland when it started back in 2015. Its acquisition by Netflix grew the audience internationally and spawned a stable full of remakes across Europe and Asia. In the meantime, several members of the original French cast have become proper stars in their own right, especially Camille Cottin and Laure Calamy, and this sequel, set five years on, is smart to put these two at the heart of the latest instalment. And of course, there are the obligatory turns from properly famous actors playing themselves, including Laetitia Casta, Vincent Macaigne, Laurent Lafitte and some guy named George Clooney, best known these days for appearances on vaporettos in the Venice lagoon.
Like many great sitcoms, this one always understood that failure, rather than success, keeps the wider narrative arc more interesting and relatable. So the last episode of the series left the gang at talent agency ASK (which stood for Agence Samuel Kerr, after the founder, who died in the first episode), dispersed to new gigs and careers; the band, in effect, broke up. Five years on, the stars have aligned to bring them all back together to work on Andréa (Cottin) and Noémie’s (Calamy) new film project, so the title Call My Agent! The Movie works on more than one level.
Continue reading...Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:00:47 GMT
In new film The Heart of the Beast, the A-lister’s bond with his loyal mutt proves crucial. In Spike Jonze’s new advert, Pitt is rather more subservient
Brad Pitt has a new movie out this month, The Heart of the Beast, about an emotionally damaged man who forms a life-saving bond with a dog. If that sounds familiar, maybe it is because you have seen The Call of the Wild. Or maybe it is because you have seen A Dog’s Way Home. Or maybe it is because you have seen Dog. Or, look, you get the idea.
But perhaps Brad Pitt knows that getting people to see something as unimaginative as The Heart of the Beast is an uphill struggle, because that would explain why he has just made an advert that looks and feels much more like the Brad Pitt dog movie that deserves to be made. In short, it is an advert where Brad Pitt gets loudly disparaged by a number of dogs for an extended period of time.
Continue reading...Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:30:04 GMT
Spiritual leaders stress diversity of views within Jewish community and warn against inaction on settler violence
Prominent British rabbis have backed Ed Miliband’s sanctions on Israeli settlements, warning that the time for inaction on settler violence must come to an end.
The intervention comes after the UK’s chief rabbi, the spiritual leader of mainstream Orthodox Jews in the UK, Sir Ephraim Mirvis, described UK sanctions against illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories as a “dark day for British Jews” and warned they could embolden people who “use hatred as a weapon against Jews”.
Continue reading...Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:57:14 GMT
Scotland Yard confirms it is investigating allegations broadcast by Channel 4 News after undercover sting
The Metropolitan police will investigate allegations that Reform UK plotted to break electoral law that bans foreign donations as part of a wider inquiry into the party’s funding.
The force confirmed it would examine the claims after Channel 4 News broadcast an undercover sting by reporters from Verbatim, in which one of them posed as a foreign donor seeking to fund Reform.
Continue reading...Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:23:19 GMT
Joshua Cammidge, 31, arrested after investigation led by counter-terrorism policing London
A man has been charged with offences related to national security as part of an ongoing investigation led by counter-terrorism policing (CTP) London, according to the Metropolitan police.
Joshua Cammidge, 31, was arrested at an address in Swindon on Friday 4 September by CTP London officers, who were supported by officers from Wiltshire police. Searches were also carried out at a different address in Swindon. He was further arrested and detained the following day, being charged with assisting a foreign intelligence service and intending to commit or engage in conduct to prepare an act of sabotage.
Continue reading...Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:49:41 GMT
CPS says charges relate to alleged sexual misconduct by the actor towards five women between 2007 and 2016
The actor and film-maker Noel Clarke has been charged with six sexual offences, including two counts of sexual assault, after allegations made by five women.
The charges against the former Doctor Who actor also include three counts of voyeurism and one count of exposure.
Continue reading...Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:16:41 GMT