A surge of low-grade stars has thrown the celebrity world into a sub-prime crisis. Now where’s Mervyn King? Going by this weekend’s headlines, setting next year’s citizenship test should be a doddle.
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Celebrity world is in sub-prime crisis
• Manager blames referee error for England’s exit • Joe Cole says there are ‘a lot of issues’ in squad Fabio Capello will meet the Football Association seeking evidence of its continued support but has ruled out resigning as England manager following his team’s humiliating elimination from the World Cup. The national side’s manager of two‑and-a-half years will discuss his future with Sir Dave Richards, chairman of Club England, having made it clear he will not voluntarily quit his position with two seasons to run on his £6m-a-year contract. Instead, the onus will very much be on the FA to sack him if it wishes to instigate a change ahead of the start of the side’s qualification campaign for Euro 2012
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Capello refuses to resign before crisis meeting
Allowing envious feelings towards colleagues to take over could be disastrous for your career. Hilary Osborne looks at how to identify and control the green-eyed monster within From Gordon Brown to the Pussycat Dolls via Fernando Alonso, if the media is to be believed, envy of colleagues is a common affliction among those in the public eye. But the green-eyed monster also rears its head in ordinary workplaces.
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Envy in the workplace: Jealous guise
A study suggests our brains have highly distorted representations of the size and shape of our own hands. The distortion may extend to other body parts, skewing body image You may think you know the back of your hand like, well, the back of your hand
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We don’t know back of our hands
Preliminary research involving bone marrow transplants in mice suggests there may be an immune component to mental illness such as depression, OCD, autism and schizophrenia Scientists in the US claim to have used a bone marrow transplant to cure mental illness in a study that could have profound implications for patients with psychiatric problems. Bone marrow transplants are routinely used to treat leukaemia and other life-threatening diseases, but have never been used to treat mental health problems.
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Transplants ‘cure mental illness’
We’ve handed our personal database to internet companies with hardly any questions asked The next time you hear the phrase “internet privacy”, don’t think of teenage infatuations heatedly committed to Facebook, of lads puking down their Ted Bakers and sticking the cameraphone footage on YouTube, or of some hack writer tweeting about the progress of his colonic cancer. No, consider instead AOL Subscriber 4417749
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Aditya Chakrabortty
‘Some people genuinely don’t understand that we have chosen to adopt when, as far as we’re aware, we could have birth children’ It’s always interesting to note the different reactions of people when they first discover we’re going through the adoption process. There’s usually a pause while they rearrange their thoughts, bite back the first thing they were going to say and replace it with something a little more considered.
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What I’m really thinking: Adopting