Month: May 2019

I have had an invitation to my niece’s wedding that includes a note saying she hopes my partner and I will attend so she can “My brother cut me off for being gay. Should I accept his daughter’s wedding invitation?”

Late summer, 2005. A hot evening. All the windows are open and I’m watching a film in the living room with my fiancee. When the “‘I quit my job. Drink gushed into the space I left for it’: confessions of an alcoholic”

This season in fashion, size matters – but not in the way you might think. With temperatures set to reach the 20s in the UK “Tent dress: new trend aiming to capitalise on warm weather”

A cofounder of Facebook has called for the government to break up the company, warning that Mark Zuckerberg’s power is “unprecedented and un-American”. Chris Hughes, “Facebook cofounder calls for company to break up over ‘unprecedented’ power”

Chelsea Manning has been released from jail after 62 days of confinement for refusing to testify before a grand jury. The former army intelligence analyst, “Chelsea Manning released after 62-day confinement in jail”

A diorama purporting to show the landscape of Mars, in fact gleaned from images of the driest places on Earth; a video of legal cases “Climate to fake news: Venice Biennale takes on era’s big challenges”

The “witness x” whose evidence was never heard in the Oscar-winning actor Geoffrey Rush’s defamation battle against the Daily Telegraph is Hollywood actor Yael Stone. “Yael Stone revealed as ‘witness x’ in Geoffrey Rush defamation case”

Late-night hosts focused on Trump’s downward spiral, the Mueller investigation and Facebook. Seth Meyers: ‘That kid’s going to military school’ Seth Meyers turned to the “Seth Meyers to Trump: ‘You don’t get credit for predicting headlines you created’”

My love of rollercoasters started when I was 10. Dad took me on our local one at Great Yarmouth – it’s one of a few “Experience: I am a naked rollercoaster rider”

Guns N’ Roses are suing a Colorado brewery for trademark infringement over a beer named Guns ‘N’ Rosé. In a California court filing, the band “Guns N’ Roses sue brewery over Guns ‘N’ Rosé beer”