Dreams of matrimony often involve a magical engagement, a big white wedding followed by partnership until the end of your days.
But the reality doesn’t always match the fantasy, as romantic dinners are replaced by mindless snacking on the sofa contributing to weight gain and nights of passion become battles over the duvet, leading to poor sleep.
In fact, so-called wedded bliss could increase spouses’ likelihood of developing chronic conditions such as type 2 diabetes.
So how can we limit
When Sir Alex Ferguson finally decided to retire, the search for his Manchester United successor was straightforward. Ferguson just picked up the phone and told David Moyes to get round to his house in Cheshire.
‘It was as simple as that,’ recalls Moyes, whose biggest concern when he broke off a shopping trip with his wife Pamela in the spring of 2013 was that he would be meeting Ferguson dressed in a pair of jeans. ‘He offered me the job
A single moment was all it took for our world to be seismically changed for ever. In 2008, my husband, Simon — a relentlessly, even irritatingly, healthy 38-year-old musician and part-time construction worker — fell backwards off an unsecured second-storey scaffold on to a stone floor, suffering catastrophic injuries to his brain and spinal cord.
Rushed to hospital by air ambulance, the head neurosurgeon later told us that when Simon had arrived in his operating room he was ‘half way
Victoria Beckham partied until the early hours on Saturday night as she celebrated her 50th birthday surrounded by her family and celebrity friends.
Declaring it ‘the best night ever’, the Spice Girl had to be carried out of swanky Mayfair private members’ club Oswald’s by her husband David at 2:30am.
Her recent foot injury saw the star rely on crutches for her glam entrance hours earlier, but she had her husband on hand for a piggy back as the night
We live in a world of dangerous, deadly extremes. Record-breaking heat waves, intense drought, stronger hurricanes, unprecedented flash flooding. No corner of the planet will be spared the wrath of human-caused climate change and the earth’s fresh water is already feeling the heat of this new reality. More than half of the world’s lakes and two-thirds of its rivers are drying up, threatening ecosystems, farmland, and drinking water supplies. Such diminishing resources are also likely to lead to conflict and … Read more
In December of 2022, a Boeing 777 operated by United Airlines took off from Hawaii in heavy rain. About a minute into the flight, the aircraft plummeted towards the ocean. It came just 750 feet from hitting the water at high-speed, which almost certainly would have killed all 280 people on board. In the end, the pilots saved the aircraft by a matter of seconds.
For more than two months, no one heard about this incident. It was as if
“At this point in my life, the pros outweigh the cons,” one reader argued.
Welcome to Up for Debate. Each week, Conor Friedersdorf rounds up timely conversations and solicits reader responses to one thought-provoking question. Later, he publishes some thoughtful replies. Sign up for the newsletter here.
Last week, I asked readers, “Are humans better or worse off for having beer, wine, and spirits?
The Supreme Court of the United States will get back to work on October 2. As is now tradition, the 2023–24 term will give the Republican-appointed justices on the court plenty of opportunities to revoke rights, promote gun violence, and make the world safe for wealthy white men and nobody else. As is now also tradition, the elected branches of government—as well as the Democratic Party—will do nothing to stop those six conservative justices from imposing their far-right cultural agenda … Read more
The 2018 legislation made sex workers less safe and the Internet less free. A spate of new laws is deepening the damage.
In April of 2018, when Donald Trump signed the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act, sex workers and civil liberties groups sounded the alarm. The legislation—known as FOSTA-SESTA because it incorporated parts of the
Chelsea newcomer Christopher Nkunku is due to have surgery on his knee after sustaining meniscus damage in pre-season. Many fans expected the Frenchman to hit the ground running at Stamford Bridge after joining from RB Leipzig earlier this summer.
The news will come as a crushing blow to Chelsea manager Mauricio Pochettino. Nkunku was a livewire during the Blues’ warm-up matches for the upcoming campaign, netting against Fulham, Brighton and Wrexham in recent friendlies.
The French international went down in
