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Probation: ‘Too few staff, with too little experience, managing too many offenders’
Warning: This story contains descriptions of suicide and acts of violence Holding his chin in his hand and staring into the distance, a probation officer tells me how he planned to end his life. “I started to prepare how I was going to do it,” he says. “I needed to get out of this work…
December sales provide little cheer for retailers
Shoppers spent more in December compared with the year before but it wasn’t enough to make up for an overall lacklustre year for retailers, new figures suggest. Doing particularly well over Christmas were gifts including beauty advent calendars, jewellery and AI-enabled tech, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) said. December’s growth of 3.2% was boosted by…
2025 Golden Globes Host Nikki Glaser Says Jo Koy Was a “Little Naïve”
Nikki Glaser has some constructive feedback for Jo Koy. As the comedian prepares to host the 2025 Golden Globes, set to air live from the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills Jan. 5, she reflected on what the previous emcee taught her through his controversial monologue at last year’s affair. “It taught me the importance of…
‘Trump is a little guy, Musk is a big guy’: historian predicts trouble for president-elect
Timothy Snyder says world’s richest man is likely to exert uncomfortable influence over White House Allies and aides to Donald Trump should be increasingly concerned by Elon Musk’s proximity to and influence on the US president-elect, the Yale historian and bestselling author Timothy Snyder said. “Trump is a little guy, and Musk is a big…
Big Little Lies’ Shailene Woodley & Iain Armitage Share Sweet Reunion
Big Little Lies star Shailene Woodley shared a sweet reunion with her onscreen son, Iain Armitage, as he attended a performance of her Broadway play, Cult of Love, in New York City. Talk about a big little reunion. Shailene Woodley took a trip down memory lane when her Big Little Lies costar, Iain Armitage—who played…
UK and EU look to 2025 for reset, but with little room for trade-offs
Early in 2025, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has been invited to an informal summit of EU leaders. It’s the first such invitation for the UK since the bitter days of the Brexit negotiations. The focus of the February meeting is future security and defence co-operation. The backdrop: the volatile state of the world from…