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‘We stayed at Charles’ country home – staff issued one strict request’ | Royal | News

‘We stayed at Charles’ country home – staff issued one strict request’ | Royal | News

Published by Sam Flores

Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly admitted they were once issued with a strict request from King Charles’ staff while spending the night in Dumfries House. The mischievous presenting duo revealed the story on The Graham Norton Show, reflecting on an ITV programme they filmed in 2006 that followed Charles, then Prince of Wales, for a special production marking 30 years of The Prince’s Trust. The charity, now renamed The King’s Trust, supports young people under 30 to start their own businesses. Ant McPartlin, 50, recalled how well they got along with Charles during filming. He said he and Donnelly, also 50, “got on really well” with the Prince, describing the experience as both surreal and memorable. The pair were offered the chance to stay overnight at the historic Scottish estate ahead of their final interview for the programme. McPartlin said: “We were asked if we would like to spend the night at the house ahead of the final interview. We were like ‘hell, yes!’ It was amazing and everything you’d imagine.” He also shared an …

Politics Home | Trump’s Claims Nato Troops “Stayed Off Front Line” In Afghanistan Spark Cross-Party Outrage

Politics Home | Trump’s Claims Nato Troops “Stayed Off Front Line” In Afghanistan Spark Cross-Party Outrage

Published by Sam Flores

Minister Stephen Kinnock branded the comment “deeply disappointing” (Alamy) 3 min read2 hr Donald Trump’s claim that Nato troops “stayed a little off the front lines” during the war in Afghanistan has sparked cross-party criticism in Westminster. Social care minister Stephen Kinnock branded the remarks “deeply disappointing”, telling Sky News he did not think there was “any basis” for the US president to make those comments.  Speaking to Fox News on Thursday, Trump said that he was “not sure” that the Nato alliance would be there for the US “if we ever needed them”. “We have never really asked anything of them,” Trump claimed, adding, “They’ll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan…and they did, they stayed a little back, a little off the front lines”. The US is the only country to have ever invoked Article 5 of Nato, which states “an armed attack against one Nato member shall be considered an attack against them all”. The UK, among other Nato allies, supported the US during the war in Afghanistan following the 9/11 terror attacks in 2001. A …

Politics Home | Trump’s Claims Nato Troops “Stayed Off Front Line” In Afghanistan Spark Cross-Party Outrage

Politics Home | Keir Starmer Says Trump’s Claim Nato Troops “Stayed Off Front Line” In Afghanistan Is “Insulting” And “Appalling”

Published by Sam Flores

Minister Stephen Kinnock branded the comment “deeply disappointing” (Alamy) 3 min read23 January Keir Starmer has said that Donald Trump’s claim that Nato troops “stayed a little off the front lines” during the war in Afghanistan is “insulting and frankly, appalling”. In his strongest criticism yet of the US president, Starmer said he was “not surprised [Trump’s words] caused such hurt to the loved ones of those who were killed or injured,” adding that if he had said something like that, he would “certainly apologise”. Speaking to Fox News on Thursday, Trump said that he was “not sure” that the Nato alliance would be there for the US “if we ever needed them”. “We have never really asked anything of them,” Trump claimed, adding, “They’ll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan…and they did, they stayed a little back, a little off the front lines”. The US is the only country to have ever invoked Article 5 of Nato, which states “an armed attack against one Nato member shall be considered an attack against them all”. The UK, among other …

Why Young Women Moved Left While Young Men Stayed Sane

Why Young Women Moved Left While Young Men Stayed Sane

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by vittorio on X, Bill Ackman quote-tweeted a graph showing the partisan gap between young men and women almost doubled in 25 years. Political scientists & data quants have been telling us this for half a decade. Women have moved *radically* leftward, at a scale & speed with no modern precedent, while men have, on the whole, remained largely steady & unchanged. And you can see it across the data: https://t.co/3uvlTDRwMg pic.twitter.com/Vh6zwPkKUI — Zarathustra (@zarathustra5150) January 15, 2026 Women moved radically left. Men stayed roughly where they were. Good question. Most answers I’ve seen are either tribal (“women are emotional”) or surface-level (“social media bad”). Neither traces the actual mechanism. Let me try. First, notice what Wanye pointed out: It seems pretty clear to me that what we’ve been told about radicalization for the last 10 years is exactly the opposite of what’s happened in reality. We’ve been told that men are increasingly radicalized to the right and that this is a bad thing. What’s actually happened is… — wanye (@xwanyex) January 15, 2026 We’ve …

Vladimir Putin has stayed silent and powerless on Iran, despite their ‘strategic partnership’

Vladimir Putin has stayed silent and powerless on Iran, despite their ‘strategic partnership’

Published by Sam Flores

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and his Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian at the signing of a “strategic partnership” treaty aimed at strengthening ties between their countries, Moscow, Russia, January 17, 2025. EVGENIA NOVOZHENINA/AFP In Moscow, too, the Tehran regime’s crackdown on Iranian protesters has shocked and moved many. A handful of anonymous people have left flowers and photographs outside the Iranian Embassy, paying tribute to those killed or sentenced to death. The Kremlin, meanwhile, has stayed silent. During a press conference on Wednesday, January 14, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov did not utter a single word condemning the violent crackdown that the Islamic Republic of Iran’s authorities had ordered against the protesters. According to the latest figures published by the non-governmental organization Iran Human Rights on Wednesday, at least 3,428 people have been killed and more than 10,000 arrested since the protest movement began at the end of December 2025. Lavrov merely reiterated that nothing could change the fundamentals of the relationship between Russia and Iran, two allied countries that, on January 17, 2025, signed a …

I Stayed Way Too Long: 7 Reasons I Didn’t Leave A Bad Marriage | Liza Caldwell

I Stayed Way Too Long: 7 Reasons I Didn’t Leave A Bad Marriage | Liza Caldwell

Published by Jenni Sidey

For a long time, much of my adult life, I lived in a confusing and deeply unhealthy marriage. I called it love, even though it was painful, isolating, and full of denial. If anyone had tried to point that out back then, I likely would have shut them out completely. On some level, I knew things were wrong, but admitting it felt humiliating. I was embarrassed that I’d let my life drift so far from what I knew made sense, and even more embarrassed that I didn’t know how to fix it. What I understand now is that staying in a bad marriage isn’t unusual or irrational. When you’re inside a toxic relationship, fear and shame can quietly run the show. The idea of leaving, starting over, or surviving on your own can feel more terrifying than staying put. That fear can freeze you in place for years. Looking back at my nearly 20-year marriage, I can finally see why I stayed, and I see the same patterns in so many women I meet today. …