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Best of Brakfast Episode 174 Yana Bolder
Some rules aren't written down. Nobody teaches them at school. There's no official handbook. And yet somehow, most of Gen X knows exactly what they are. They're the little bits of everyday etiquette that make life run a bit more smoothly. Holding a door open. Saying thank you. Waiting your turn. Putting your trolley back. Small things. But together, they say a lot about who we are. Here are some […]
Andy Burnham has secured three hundred and twenty-two nominations from Labour MPs on the first day of the party leadership contest. When nominations opened at nine o'clock this morning, a queue of MPs formed outside the parliamentary party office. Burnham is now just one backer short of ensuring that no other potential candidate can secure the eighty-one nominations required to proceed to the next stage of the race. No other […]
Technology is brilliant. We can video call someone on the other side of the world, stream millions of songs instantly and order dinner without speaking to another human being. It's incredible. And yet... Why does it sometimes feel like technology creates as many problems as it solves? Gen X has lived through one of the biggest technological revolutions in history. We grew up with cassette tapes, VHS recorders and payphones, […]
The Metropolitan Police officer who shot Chris Kaba is unlikely to face misconduct proceedings due to new government regulations. Firearms officer Martyn Blake shot the twenty four year old in south London in 2022 after Mr Kaba rammed a police stop. Mr Blake was cleared of murder, but the watchdog says the disciplinary case will now be dropped. The Kaba family has been given three weeks to challenge the decision. […]
We all have one. That item sitting in a cupboard, garage, loft or drawer that nobody else understands. It has no real value. It probably hasn’t been used for years. Someone has probably suggested getting rid of it. But you can’t. Because it’s not really about the object. It’s about the memories attached to it. Gen X especially grew up in a time when things weren’t automatically replaced every few […]
The Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has posted on social media to say he will be making an announcement this afternoon about his future in public life. The statement follows recent reports regarding donations made to the party leader and his official declarations of them. A series of explosions have been heard in Damascus near the hotel where the French President Emmanuel Macron is due to stay in Syria. Roads […]
Work has changed a lot since Gen X first entered the workplace. Some changes were definitely improvements. Some are slightly confusing. And some make older generations sound like they survived employment during Victorian times. Because back then, offices, shops and workplaces had rules that now seem completely unbelievable. Yet at the time, everybody just accepted them. Mostly because there was no internet to complain about them publicly. Here are some […]
A 23-year-old wild card has reached the Wimbledon quarter-finals after a fightback. Arthur Fery entered the tournament ranked 114, with only two grand slam victories and no five-set match wins. He has won two matches from positions, beating former semi-finalist Grigor Dimitrov 7-5 3-6 4-6 6-4 7-6. After trailing Zizou Bergs in the fourth and fifth sets, Fery recovered to earn a meeting with ninth-seed Flavio Cobolli. A mother has […]
The world changes fast now. Technology changes. Music changes. Television changes. Apparently phones now fold again for reasons nobody fully understands. But despite all that, some traditions still survive. And honestly, Gen X hopes they never disappear. Because traditions are the small familiar things that make life feel comforting. The routines, habits and moments that somehow stay important no matter how modern everything becomes. They connect generations too. Parents pass […]
A skydiver's body has been discovered in a field in Nottinghamshire, police have confirmed. Emergency services were called to reports of an incident near Langar Airfield at thirteen minutes past twelve on Sunday afternoon. A twenty-two-year-old woman was found in a nearby field and was pronounced dead at the scene, according to Nottinghamshire Police. The force added that her family have been informed and no one else was hurt during […]
