When bm goes wrong

July 05, 2022 - 19:13 BST Mad Men star January Jones set pulses soaring in a racy red swimsuit in photo from her home January Jones stepped into her Fourth of July weekend in style - and with a racy new look. The star donned one of her many swimsuits for a snapshot from her home in Los Angeles where she looked in the mood to celebrate. MORE: January Jones turns up the heat for daring post-surgery selfie Posing in a pair of tight denim shorts and a revealing red-one piece, January only just managed to contain her modesty as she gave her chest a cheeky boost. Loading the player... WATCH: January Jones slids into her impressive living room The swimsuit was kept in place with strings which were tied at her shoulders and January beamed for the camera as fans immediately began commenting on her photo. "There's the summer backyard beauty we've been waiting for," wrote one, while a second added: "Lady in red," and … [Read more...] about January Jones only just contains herself in racy red swimsuit – fans are stunned

Where do they think it’s going to end, all this? What do they, by which I mean all of the other members of the government, think is going to be the outcome for them? Johnson is finished, they must know that. And yet, on they all go, day after day, week after week, publicly humiliating themselves in defence of a man who they must surely know would never, ever do the same for them, and from whom no good, now, is ever going to come? Dominic Raab does not come across as a man who, in his private moments, has an especially deep reservoir of Zen-like calm to call upon. What is he saying to himself, to his friends? What are the voices in his head shouting at him when he gets to the end of yet another agonising humiliation on the TV channels and radio stations, doing his level best to style out the absurd lies of a man who, he must surely know by now, is not telling him the truth? Even by Raab’s incomparably low standards, Tuesday morning’s efforts were off-the-scale … [Read more...] about Clearly, we’ve expected too much of Boris Johnson on the Chris Pincher scandal

By Alan McGuinness, Political Reporter Theresa May's position as Prime Minister is in peril after her gamble of calling a snap General Election backfired spectacularly. So if she does get the boot, who could replace her? :: Boris Johnson The Foreign Secretary and former London mayor has long been tipped for the top job, and a source told Sky News in the aftermath of the election that he was "on manoeuvres" and sounding out MPs about a possible leadership bid. When asked in the early hours of Friday whether Mrs May should remain as Prime Minister, Mr Johnson said: "It's early days." Advertisement However, he later dismissed claims he is readying a leadership bid as "tripe". Mr Johnson considered running in the aftermath of David Cameron's resignation in 2016, but stepped back after being publicly knifed in the back by fellow Brexiteer Michael Gove, who went for the role himself. More from Politics Boris Johnson apologises for appointing … [Read more...] about Who could replace Theresa May? The PM’s likely successors

Ever find yourself typing things to work colleagues that you would never say in real life? ‘Fab. Sounds perf! Thanks sooo much! *smiley emoji*’ You are very much not alone. As we settle into almost two years of widespread remote working, many people still haven’t met their workmates in person , and the way that we communicate is changing. While there are many benefits of working from home, months of spending the days at a makeshift desk, in an empty room – with the main form of colleague communication being via Slack, or other forms of instant messaging – have started to take their toll. Yes, we might have the odd Zoom call, but primarily communicating through the written word has become commonplace. And this has consequences on how we talk to one another. Before, in our pre-pandemic lives, a colleague could ask a question such as ‘have you emailed so-and-so?’, over a desk, as part of an ongoing dialogue. You could then have either answered, ‘yeah’, or ‘not … [Read more...] about Why communicating over Slack has got us all using language we’d never use in real life

In 1893, Henry James complained about the recent publication of Gustave Flaubert’s letters. The French novelist was famous for his stylistic perfectionism. What treachery, then, to publish his casual missives, ones that he hadn’t had time to labor over. To James’s regret, the new collection left Flaubert’s “every weakness exposed, every mystery dispelled, every secret betrayed.” James understood why the book existed. As he wrote, humans possess “an insurmountable desire to know .” When we love someone—a writer, a friend, a mistress—we want to know everything about them; when we hate someone, we want to know everything about them too. This desire applies to more than people: We start a novel and need to know how it ends; we feel a pain in our chest and head over to WebMD to determine its cause. If the desire to know is insurmountable, so too are the consequences. Many books, including ones by James himself, dramatize the dangers of knowledge. (Adam and Eve, meet apple.) Perhaps … [Read more...] about Eight Books in Which Ignorance Is the Point

S trings of ordinary lightbulbs on white plastic flex, hung like flowers on dangling vines and festooned from the ceiling, in celebration of nothing at all. A low and vacant plinth, waiting for something to happen, with more lightbulbs glowing around its edge, a tawdry halo of expectancy. A lone and distant bird in a high white sky, a huge distance caught in the camera's eye. Blue curtains sifting blue light on to a blue mirror, veiling the world outside and spilling over the silver cellophane wrappers of thousands of sweets. Walk through a blue and white bead curtain, and think for a moment that it could almost be rain (it is called Water). This is the work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres, currently at the Serpentine and on billboards around London (a single unexplained image - two dented pillows side by side, rumpled sheets, the aftermath of sleep or sex). There are more works, discretely displayed in the Print Room at the V&A, and in the studios of the Royal College of Art across … [Read more...] about All this, and free sweets too