“Grab them by the pussy,” Donald Trump boasted in 2005. “You can do anything.” When the recording of these comments surfaced last week, the Republican presidential nominee apologized, before later saying (predictably) that his words were ”locker-room talk.”
“Slang dictionaries have always been done by mad people who sit in rooms and make books out of them,” explains Jonathon Green. For 35 years he’s been doing just that: collecting slang words and compiling them into dictionaries.
It’s 2016, and the Republican presidential nominee in the US elections has been caught on tape for boasting about sexually assaulting women. “Grab them by the pussy,” Donald Trump says in a 2005 recording obtained by the Washington Post. “You can do anything.”
London’s mix of blistering property prices and building restrictions has created a dire shortage of housing in the capital. It’s so bad, even a mattress under a set of stairs is not one of the most egregious examples of the city’s insane rental market.
Yesterday, British prime minister Theresa May gave a speech that set out the post-Brexit government’s worldview—and it was strikingly isolationist. She singled out foreigners, “citizens of the world,” business fat cats, and—by implication—young people, who had voted overwhelmingly in the Brexit referendum for the cosmopolitanism and free movement that EU membership bestowed.
The EU’s malaise has many strands: Brexit causing a divided union. A steady rise in far-right populist politics. Years of youth unemployment. A record-breaking refugee crisis.
More evidence has emerged that British millennials are struggling.
“Hey!” ”Beautiful.” ”I feel fabulous.” These were the slogans emblazoned on t-shirts for girls in a branch of Tesco in Swindon, England. On the boys’ shirts were the phrases “hero,” “think outside the box,” and “desert adventure awaits.”
Mark April Fool’s Day of 2019 in your diary. By this point, the UK will have left the EU.
Susan Schneider Williams, the late wife of comedian and actor Robin Williams, has penned a harrowing account of how her husband suffered from Lewy body disease (LBD), a form of dementia, prior to his suicide in August 2014.
Britain has not yet begun its long (and likely tortuous) process of leaving the European Union. Its terms of exit from the bloc are still unclear, and ever since the vote, uncertainty has hovered over the future of London’s coveted status as a European business hub.
With the UK gripped by the uncertainty of its impending exit of the EU, countries elsewhere in Europe are trying to lure businesses away from Britain. France has been among the most aggressive, promising London’s anxious financial firms the unfettered access to EU markets they currently enjoy, as well as pledging a smooth transition and easy registration process.
It’s progress—of sorts.
Donald Trump’s fear-mongering, crusade-laden, sensationalist, and hyperbolic rhetoric was on full display in his first debate yesterday (Sept. 26). Here are the words he relied on to make the case against Hillary Clinton, his Democratic rival for US president.
While most of the West continues to debate how its governments can best balance privacy and security, voters in Switzerland have approved more state surveillance—not less of it.
As the more left-wing choice, Bernie Sanders made a strong challenge to Hillary Clinton to be the Democrats’ US presidential nominee this year. His brother is also trying to make his mark for the Left—only across the pond.
Diane James has become the UK Independence Party’s new leader, succeeding the most outspoken architect of Brexit, Nigel Farage.
Roald Dahl is remembered for his solitary, kind-hearted child heroes—Charlie, who visited a chocolate factory, and Sophie, who befriended a floppy-eared giant, among them—and their triumphs over bullying adults. But the beloved British children’s book author was also known for the distinctive language he used to create the vivid, often dark, worlds in which the characters lived.
According to research in behavioral economics and social sciences, our well-being follows a U-shape. Longitudinal studies have found that when we’re young, we are content with life, but gradually this decreases until we hit our 40s (the mid-life crisis is real). After this so-called nadir of happiness, we start to change course, becoming more content from our 60s onwards.
Discontent over immigration was one of the key reasons a majority of Britons voted to leave the EU in June. The ”Leave” campaign promised to stem an ”out-of-control” tide by extending the points-based system, which currently applies to non-EU citizens, to immigrants from the EU as well. This system, which gives each would-be migrant a score based on various attributes and skills, would let in only those considered valuable to the economy.
Several French seaside towns have in recent weeks banned women from wearing the burkini—a full-body swimsuit design—on its beaches. In instance this week that has become widely discussed, police in Nice were photographed apparently forcing a woman to remove the blouse she wore over her bodysuit.
Like first time travelers, the British Olympic team thought it’d be fun for its entire delegation to the 2016 Games in Rio to carry matching red luggage.
“Mr. Brexit” has joined forces with the original Mr. Brexit.
The Australian National Dictionary was updated for the first time in 28 years this week, immortalizing 6,000 new words and phrases. Among the entries added to the nation’s lexicon are colorful colloquialisms and idioms, regional phrases, and words derived from over 100 indigenous languages.
