Emma Corrin has posted pictures on Instagram featuring a chest binder, and added the pronouns she/they to their profile. thetimes.co.uk/article/why-em…
“Some time before I bought my first binder . . . It’s all a journey right. Lots of twists and turns and change and that’s ok! Embrace it,” reads that caption, which also mentions the trans-owned chest binding company gc2b that Corrin now uses.
This follows on from Corrin’s addition of she/they pronouns to their Instagram page, which means they’re happy to be referred to by either, and a post in April, photographed in a wedding dress and veil, with the caption “ur fave queer bride”.
“Your response to the above may be largely generational. In the middle of the millennial age bracket at 33, I didn’t know about non-binary pronouns at school or even at university… But it’s a very small adjustment for me, personally, to make, isn’t it?” writes @CharlieGowans
“A colleague raised the medical risks of binding the chest. According to one study, back pain and shortness of breath were common; so were ‘decreased gender dysphoria, anxiety and depression’,” she adds.
“As to the pronouns? I’m a straight, white, cisgender woman and people’s assumptions of my sexuality, race and gender are always right. It's easy for me to feel that my identity is seen and accepted, and it should be as easy for everyone,” says @CharlieGowans.
“Making it easier for them doesn’t make it harder for me; it is not a big ask to memorise someone’s preferred pronouns alongside their name when meeting them for the first time,” adds @CharlieGowans.
“Johnson is nothing like the other prime ministers I’ve covered,” says @TomMcTague.
“Tony Blair and David Cameron were polished and formidable. Gordon Brown and Theresa May were rigid, fearful, cautious. Johnson might as well be another species.”
“He once told David Letterman that he could, ‘technically speaking’, be elected president due to his now renounced dual-nationality. Some wondered whether he meant it. He had, after all, said as a child that his ambition was to be ‘world king’.”
Sarah Everard was less than a mile from her flat in Brixton on March 3 when she was abducted by officer Wayne Couzens
The abduction took just three minutes, but evidence now shows that Couzens had planned the kidnapping days in advance thetimes.co.uk/article/how-wa…
Three days earlier Couzens, who lived in Deal, Kent, had hired the car online and used Amazon to purchase a carpet protector to cover up any forensic evidence in the vehicle
Couzens worked a 12-hour shift in London overnight before clocking off at 9am on March 3. He drove back to Dover where he collected the rented Vauxhall Astra
In the early evening, as Everard visited a friend on Clapham Common, Couzens began his journey back to London
Why do partners have affairs? Five people talk about their experiences of infidelity, and psychotherapist Jean-Claude Chalmet explains why we stray.
Lack of emotional connection in the marriage 💔
“An affair is often the end point of feeling taken for granted,” says Chalmet. “No one wants to feel used. I’ve noticed that women in particular tire of feeling like the waitress at the banquet of their husband’s life.”
The sex drought 🛏️
“I’ve heard spouses say: ‘You drove me to it.’ I find in my practice that many men think that their partners don’t want sex. This creates a tension — and they look for the easy solution. The truth is their partners often do want sex, just not bad sex.”
10 days have passed since the former health secretary Matt Hancock resigned after footage leaked of him engaging in an affair with his aid Gina Coladangelo while at work
Bethell is not only a close friend of Hancock’s, having chaired and donated thousands of pounds to his failed leadership campaign, and then received a ministerial job; he is also the last person involved in the scandal who has not resigned or given an explanation for his conduct
The Lord sponsored a parliamentary pass for Coladangelo back in March of 2020, giving her unfettered access to the Palace of Westminster
The pass was in her married name, Tress, which she rarely uses
"I know about cancel culture because I was cancelled — or rather, I did the cancelling; it was hard to tell in the end. The debacle happened in March this year on the back of the Sarah Everard story"
"A friend of mine sent me a link to a columnist who’d written about the suggestion of a male curfew. “My brain hurts reading anything she writes,” he said, to which I replied that it was bang-on."
England to end virtually all coronavirus restrictions: Boris Johnson has announced what the lifting of lockdown will look like at tonight's press conference. Here are the main points 👇 thetimes.co.uk/article/covid-…
There will be no limits on social contacts whatsoever:
Mass sporting events ⚽️🏏🎾
Theatres and cinemas 🎞️🍿🎭
Night clubs 🍾💃🥂
All to go back to normal 🎉🎉
A Downing Street spokesman said the success of the vaccination programme in reducing hospital admissions meant that it was now “reasonable” to move from “top-down edicts to personal judgments” when it came to issues such as mask wearing