No one mourns the wicked – and no child should read it either. Before there was the movie Wicked starring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, there was the Broadway musical Wicked, which is based on Gregory Maguire’s novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, based on in L. Frank […]

A couple gave up their bedroom so their children could have their own space – and now sleep in their living room. Paige Boakes, 29, and her husband Ashley, 28, decided to give up their bedroom to give their children – daughters, aged seven and 11, and sons, aged three and seven – the space […]

‘Tis the season to be “tacky”—and millennials love it. The delights of the 1990s are ringing up to the wonderful Christmas decor of yesteryear, reviving the maximalist trimming of trees with big red bows, lights and twinkling lights. But the comeback yuletide trend is garnering mixed reactions from the often Grinchy Gen Zers, who are […]

Bite or flight? A Jet2 flight was forced to turn back after a drunken passenger named Lewis Howarth staggered in the aisle and called a flight attendant a “d-kh-d” for telling him to fasten his seat belt, among other things. Details of the rampage emerged at a hearing at Manchester Royal Magistrates’ Court. “I will […]

From November 1st until New Year’s Day, we Americans are inundated with the background sounds of the most wonderful time of the year. For some, fa-la-la-la fk is out, with a quarter of retail workers citing holiday music as a source of mental strain and emotional damage. Still, carols and all, Christmas music is an […]

There’s a word for the feeling you get after endlessly scrolling through social media – and Oxford chose it as its word of the year. Oxford University Press (OUP) has named “brain rot” as the 2024 Oxford Word of the Year. The term is defined as “the alleged deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual […]