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The unpopular names British parents say they’d NEVER call their babies

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Revealed: The unpopular names British parents say they’d NEVER call their babies – including Boris, Karen and Meghan Survey of 5,842 parents reveals names they wish they’d steered away from Third admitted they didn’t give child’s name enough thought before choosing 73% said they had thought of better names for their children after naming them … Read more

Prince William told Kate they’d need ‘a load of hand gel’ after handshakes at Commonwealth service

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The coronavirus has now spread to almost 70 countries around the world and health officials are scrambling to stop people spreading the virus among themselves. But with many patients not realizing they’re ill, and others carrying on with normal life until they are diagnosed, the fast-spreading infection is proving difficult to contain. Avoiding an infection … Read more

How women got to the top! Despite warnings from men that they’d be happier sticking to housework 

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HISTORY LADIES CAN’T CLIMB LADDERS  by Jane Robinson (Doubleday £20, 368 pp) The British Press reported in the early 1930s that, ‘after exhaustive research’, professors in the psychology department of a German university had concluded that ‘women cannot calculate, and when confronted with abstract mathematical problems the female intellect breaks down entirely’. Margaret Partridge (1891-1967) … Read more