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The pick-up line is officially dead — or at least people think they should be. A study of 2,000 Americans who’ve been on a date revealed that 55 per cent of them think one-liners should be forbidden — with men 18 per cent more likely than women to think they should be outlawed. The most … Read more
A ‘hassle-free’ showroom where staff are forbidden from selling you a car opens in Britain this weekend. As an antidote to high-pressure hard-sell tactics, customers can look over models on offer, take advice from non-commissioned specialists, configure their ideal vehicle on screens, and even take a road test. But they can only buy their car … Read more
Rachel Rounds (pictured) claims a ban on office affairs would end the excuse that work predators are ‘only flirting’ YES By Rachel Rounds After having my own ill-fated office affair when I was in my 20s, I support a ban wholeheartedly. I met the man at my first big media production job. We shared a … Read more
The Vampire Diaries creator gets new supernatural show based on her book series The Forbidden Game By Kellie Chudzinski For Dailymail.com Published: 01:13 BST, 2 June 2020 | Updated: 01:13 BST, 2 June 2020 Fans of The Vampire Diaries are in for a treat from the novelist behind the hit fantasy show, L.J. Smith. Smith’s … Read more
An award-winning Chinese author who kept an online diary about her lockdown life in Wuhan is facing death threats after agreeing to publish her journal in foreign languages, it has been revealed. Wuhan-native Fang Fang, 64, has provided millions with a rare glimpse into the centre of the coronavirus outbreak with 60 posts penned in isolation … Read more
There were always signs that the relationship between the late, great romantic poet, William Wordsworth, and his sister Dorothy, was not the normal sibling bicker-fest. For starters, there was the way she coveted her brother’s half-eaten apple cores, treasuring the teeth-marks and popping the browning remains in her pinny pocket for safekeeping. ‘Oh the darling, … Read more
Noughts + Crosses Rating: Villages By The Sea Rating: Every generation remakes Romeo And Juliet in its own image. In the Fifties there was West Side Story, with its fabulous music and whirling petticoats, set against a backdrop of gang violence in New York. The Nineties gave us Leo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in Titanic, … Read more
Written by Sonia Sarkar | Updated: February 18, 2020 8:01:53 am A panoramic view of Hamburg. (Source: Getty Images) When 35-year-old Joanna Soriano Garcia was taking a stroll in the district of St. Pauli at Hamburg in Germany this August, a woman suddenly splashed water on her and asked her to leave. Garcia was perplexed … Read more