Day: July 13, 2018

    Fluid sexuality refers to people who do not identify as completely straight on the Kinsey Sale a rating scale which identifies seven variants of sexuality from exclusively heterosexual to exclusively homosexual. Research released today has shown that 26 per cent of UK adults identify as something other than completely heterosexual. This rises to a third 35 per cent of those aged 35-44 and more than half of those aged 18-24. The survey of 2,000 UK adults was carried out by YouGov. It also highlighted that 60 per cent of Brits including a staggering 85 per cent of those aged 18-24 and even 48 per cent of those aged 55 and over believe sexuality should be viewed on a scale, rather than people being simply gay or straight. It tells a very different story to the data co...

    Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump met the Queen for tea at Windsor Castle as tens of thousands of people protested his visit to the UK on the streets of London. The US president and his wife were treated to a Guard of Honour as they arrived at the royal residence on Friday afternoon after keeping the monarch waiting for several minutes. The US President did not bow as he shook hands briefly with the Queen on the dais, and the First Lady did not curtsy as she shook the head of state's white gloved hand. She smiled as shook hands with the president and Mrs Trump before they stood in a line for the US national anthem The Star Spangled Banner. Mr Trump was then invited to inspect the guard of honour in their red suits and bear skins. She hosted tea for Mr Tru...

    A teenage girl is fighting for her life in hospital after falling 60ft from a balcony at John Lewis. The 19-year-old fell from the upper level to the ground floor and is currently being treated for ‘desperately serious’ injuries. She is understood to have fallen from the internal balcony inside the store in Cheadle, Greater Manchester. Police and paramedics were called to the department store at 7.20pm last night. Greater Manchester Police (GMP) are now investigating how it happened, the Manchester Evening News reports. A GMP spokesman said: At around 7.20pm we were called to a report a female who had fallen from the upper level of John Lewis onto the ground floor. The police and ambulance service attended. Her injuries are desperately serious. We are now invest...

    When I lived in the UK for a short period, I heard more negative remarks about Donald Trump than I ever did while living in the America. Sometimes, it felt as if US politics was the UK’s version of trashy TV. My English friends liked to gripe about Trump endlessly by their own admission, it was hard for them to peel their eyes away from the screen. For America, a world with Trump isn’t something we can choose to turn off; it’s a show that we have to watch for 922 more days (at least), and we all know its not likely to have a happy ending. Don’t get me wrong; I feel the same way as the many angry protesters. Regularly when I see a headline with Trump’s latest inflammatory statement, I think to myself: this is the man chosen to represent the country I so proudly call...