The man in charge of the land of the free (not Donald Trump) rocked up to ABC News earlier this month and told America gay marriage should be legal. Earlier this week the leader of this great country had a spokesperson issue a statement declaring gay marriage was a government...
Anna Jane Grossman | Posted 25 May 2012 | UK Lifestyle
Queen Elizabeth is celebrating her Diamond Jubilee this year. The event marks a milestone in one of the life of one of the most famous dog owners in the world. Her Royal Lizness has always been pretty prim and private. But when it comes to her dog obsession, she's relatively...
The Reverend Jennie Hogan | Posted 25 May 2012 | UK Lifestyle
The art of ink is back. The creative act of the cursive script with lavish loops and lines bleeding into textured paper is returning to true desktops all over the world. Pen makers and stationers are seeing a significant increase in sales of fountain pens.
In the past five...
Maria Elia | Posted 25 May 2012 | UK Lifestyle
I'm blessed that the career I chose to follow allows me to travel and participate in some amazing projects around the world. Cooking is something I've dreamt about from the age of four and many years on I'm happily living my dream as a chef.
This Spring I had the...
Josh Barwick | Posted 25 May 2012 | UK Entertainment
Saturday is the 'big day' - our documentary is being broadcast on BBC2 - and I have to say I am starting to get a tad nervous. It seems so long ago that we went through the whole filming process, and soon there it will be right across...
Iain Anderson | Posted 25 May 2012 | UK Lifestyle
Normally you see me writing for HuffPostUK on politics. I'm told in LA they call it "showbusiness for ugly people."
This week I managed to break out of my political space and attend a rather more glamorous launch. Not a politician to be seen!
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Lucy Meadmore | Posted 25 May 2012 | UK Lifestyle
WARNING: This post contains content that some may find offensive.
I recently found myself in a situation. It involved a boy and it involved sex, but that's where the familiarity stopped. We met a while ago; there was A LOT of excellent snogging, some drinks and...it's never been anything more...
Benedict Rogers | Posted 25 May 2012 | UK
A Christian, a Muslim and an atheist sounds like the beginning of joke. Instead, it could the beginning of a broader-based struggle for freedom of religion and belief, in the face of rising religious intolerance around the world.
Last week, I visited Alex Aan, an Indonesian atheist in jail for...
Bansi Kara | Posted 25 May 2012 | UK Universities & Education
Nothing beats the stress and tension of exam season if you work in a secondary school. For students, exam season is a wake-up call, one of the first moments that they realise there are some situations where only their own brain and effort will get them through. For teachers, exam...
Sarah McGiven | Posted 25 May 2012 | Mydaily
It's Eurovision Song Contest weekend and across Europe people will be throwing themed parties with varying degrees of irony and invariably, a lot of hummus, but what to wear? Here's a quick Eurovision Fashion shopping edit of some of the hottest labels to snap up now whether you want to...
Rollo Ross | Posted 25 May 2012 | UK Entertainment
It's Day 10 of Cannes and the annual festival fatigue has well and truly set in.
I arrived at the press junket for the new HBO movie Hemingway and Gellhorn to find most of the other journalists there acting like doped up zombies.
Even Nicole Kidman tells me how exhausted...
M.R. Hall | Posted 25 May 2012 | UK Lifestyle
It's a fact: no man can ever come close to judging women's parenting and work choices as harshly as other women. I've just been writing a TV adaptation of my novels that - apparently unusually for a male author - feature a hard working woman as the central character (Jenny...
Nick Revell | Posted 25 May 2012 | UK Comedy
Dear Mr Cameron,
I've got half an eye on the Leveson feed while I write this piece, so it could be out of date by the time I post; but assuming you are still Prime Minister when I finish typing, I was wondering if you'd seen Chloe...
Noel Gallagher | Posted 25 May 2012 | UK Entertainment
Yes comrades. It's been a couple of days. This jet-lag is a fucker. Hardly slept a wink. So . . .
Did a show a couple of days ago at the Budokan. Quite a prestigious gig. Bob Dylan played here back in the day as did a little known band...
Dr. Alexander Brown | Posted 25 May 2012 | UK Universities & Education
I've often wondered what it might feel like to turn up to a Union meeting, Women's Institute lunch, writers' guild workshop, or cub scout jamboree only to discover that it had been chosen as the location for a major political speech or policy announcement by a leading politician. Now I...
Jon-Christopher Bua | Posted 25 May 2012 | UK Politics
Primaries & Caucuses
Although the Democrats and the Republicans have yet to hold their late summer conventions, the 2012 race for the presidency is clearly in full gear.
We are now coming to the end of a brutalizing Republican Primary-Caucus season - beginning back in the freezing...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 25 May 2012 | Women
As an advisory board member of Glamour Women of the Year, I have the privilege of nominating five inspiring women -- or groups of women -- who have made an impact in 2012. And I'd love to hear your suggestions.
Please use the comments section to share the...
Ellee Seymour | Posted 24 May 2012 | UK Lifestyle
I had no idea about burials laws until coming across Wendii Miller, a Cambridge graduate, who carried out her own DIY burial for her 98-year-old mother Doris, even digging the grave after collecting her corpse from Grimsby Hospital mortuary and driving her mother's remains back to a burial...
Oliver Childs | Posted 24 May 2012 | UK Lifestyle
It's a plot worthy of Hollywood - a fatal radioactive poison, secret documents, suppressed information, and drugs.
But this isn't fiction. This is the story of the tobacco industry's knowledge, policy and inaction around radioactive material in cigarette smoke. And how it took a painstaking search through thousands of court-ordered...
Willard Foxton | Posted 24 May 2012 | UK Politics
Sometimes, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. I seem to be one of the only people who has noticed that amid the biggest financial crisis in a generation, parliament has just insouciantly waved through £350 million on some drawings of some new submarines. Maybe I'm being unfair...
Scottee | Posted 25 May 2012 | UK