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Not lighthearted craziness, or a comic disorder of the mind: what ita''s like living with OCD
 In this candid extract from her new memoir, actor Tuppence Middleton describes her lifelong battle with obsessive-compulsive disorder, and asks for those with the condition to be treated with more sympathy
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Editor's Note: As a society, we often classify certain mental health disorders as less acute than others; OCD is one of them. It is still trivialised by the media, and many people falsely believe that it can be filed under a personality type characterised by traits or quirks such as liking things to be clean or being concerned with order. There is a plethora of novelty merchandise available, branding their owner as "a little bit OCD."
WorkA Fist-Fight Over Donald Trump at the Evangelical Version of Harvard - The New Yorker (No paywall) In early February, Wheaton College, a well-known evangelical school outside of Chicago, made a seemingly innocuous post on social media, giving a shout-out to one of its own for getting a prestigious job. An alumnus, Russell Vought, had just been confirmed as the director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. Wheaton College congratulates and prays for 1998 graduate Russell Vought, the post read. Vought, who also served at the O.M.B. in Donald Trumps first Administration, has been credited as one of the intellectual architects of the Presidents comeback: he contributed to the most recent Republican platform and helped establish the D.C. infrastructure for the MAGA-movement-in-waiting over the past four years. He also wrote the chapter of Project 2025, the Heritage Foundations blueprint for this Administration, about executive power. Work
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WorkWorkThere's One Lie I Will Never Tell My Children Parents who claim to never lie to their children are liars. It begins with Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy. Then it's yes, all kindergartners go to bed at 7 o'clock and no, the chickens on the farm and the chicken on your plate are not the same kind of chicken.
WorkBlackBerry's iconic keyboard patent has expired BlackBerry's iconic patent for keyboards on mobile devices expires today after being filed in 2005. The company shot to success in the early 2000s with what are essentially the world's first smartphones. Work
WorkMarriages in China Crash, Portending Deeper Demographic Woes Numbers of marriages in China dropped to 6.1 million in 2024, an exceptionally steep fall of 20.5 percent from the prior year. The continuing decline in marriage rates likely presages yet further declines in birth rates, intensifying China's demographic headwinds. Work
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WorkWork WorkXis rehabilitation of Jack Ma may be the most lucrative ever - The Economist (No paywall) Chinas Communist Party has a history of purging then welcoming back senior officials. Deng Xiaoping was purged three times before leading the country out of Maoism in the late 1970s. Some cadres are welcomed back years after their death. Jack Ma, Alibabas founder, received the modern version of a purge in 2020. The initial public offering (ipo) of his fintech company, Ant Group, was cancelled. Alibaba was probed and handed a record fine. Mr Ma withdrew from public life. WorkWorkWorkFact Check: Did JD Vance say US "military action" available against Russia? Tom Norton is Newsweek's Fact Check reporter, based in London. His focus is reporting on misinformation and misleading information in U.S. public life. He has in-depth knowledge of open source-intelligence research and the global disinformation industry. Tom joined Newsweek in 2022 from Full Fact and had previously worked at the Health Service Journal, the Nottingham Post, and the Advertising Standards Authority. He is a graduate of Liverpool and Nottingham Trent University. You can get in touch with Tom by emailing [email protected] or calling 646-887-1107. You can find him on X @tomsnorton, on Instagram @NortonNewsweek. Languages: English. WorkWhy Trumps second term agenda is so wildlydifferent from his first Theres an overwhelming amount of news, but not enough context. At Vox, we do things differently. Were not focused on being the first to break stories were focused on helping you understand what actually matters. We report urgently on the most important issues shaping our world, and dedicate time to the issues that the rest of the media often neglects. But we cant do it alone. WorkSouth Lebanon Villagers Return Home as Israel Withdraws DEIR MIMAS, Lebanon Israeli forces withdrew Tuesday from border villages in southern Lebanon under a deadline spelled out in a U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement that ended the latest Israel-Hezbollah war, but stayed put in five strategic overlook locations inside Lebanon. WorkWorkWorkTrump's Rift With Europe Adds Fuel to a Rally in Defense Stocks Europe was already bracing for a bruising trade war precipitated by Mr. Trump. Tariffs are seen as keeping the region in a low-growth rut. They could also drive a wedge between E.U. members, especially if America plays favorites with ideological allies, said Alessandro Penati, an economist and the president and founder of Quaestio Capital Management, an asset management company. WorkElon Musk Zeroes In on the I.R.S. Separately, the top official of the Social Security Administration, Michelle King, resigned after Musk’s team sought access to an internal database that contains personal information about Americans. WorkWorkWorkTrump administration keeps Biden's tough rules for merger reviews "The FTC has limited resources," Ferguson wrote. "Rewriting guidelines after every election would be expensive and time-consuming. It would also be destabilizing. Enforcement agencies should avoid a wholesale change in guidelines with every new administration," he wrote. WorkArt Adviser. Friend. Thief. But out of all her transgressions, she seemed most ashamed of the glamour that gilded her crimes. Darting around in chartered helicopters and regularly burning through tens of thousands of dollars in shopping sprees at luxury stores, she said, like Loewe in Paris, wasn’t even fun. WorkWorkMeta just scheduled a generative AI conference called LlamaCon for April 29 According to TechCrunch, Meta has been scrambling to figure out how AI rival DeepSeek has managed to create tech that rivals its own at a fraction of the development cost. The report suggests that DeepSeek’s upcoming models could outperform the aforementioned Llama 4. The company’s also currently embroiled in a lawsuit that accuses it of training Llama models on copyrighted book materials without permission. WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkTrump threatens 25% tariffs on foreign cars and semiconductor chips Executives have cautioned that the administration’s plan for tariffs risks harming the US economy. A 25% tariff on Mexico and Canada “will blow a hole in the US industry that we have never seen”, Jim Farley, the Ford CEO, told an investor conference in New York last week. WorkTrump would boost proud US ice hockey team at Canada game, says GM "I think there was a little bit of a political flare to it. It's just the time that we're in," Guerin said. "If you let it get the better of you, then you're in trouble. But I do think the players used it as inspiration." Since his inauguration on 20 January, Trump has attended the Super Bowl and Nascar's Daytona 500. WorkWorkThinking Machines Lab is ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati's new startup | TechCrunch Before OpenAI, Murati spent three years at Tesla as a senior product manager of the Model X, the automaker’s crossover SUV, during which Tesla released early versions of Autopilot, its AI-enabled driver-assistance software. She also was VP of product and engineering at Leap Motion, a startup building hand- and finger-tracking motion sensors for PCs. WorkFetii's group rideshare app for young people attracts funding from Mark Cuban, YC | TechCrunch Rebecca Bellan covers transportation for TechCrunch. She’s interested in all things micromobility, EVs, AVs, smart cities, AI, sustainability and more. Previously, she covered social media for Forbes.com, and her work has appeared in Bloomberg CityLab, The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, Mother Jones, i-D (Vice) and more.Rebecca studied journalism and history at Boston University. She has invested in Ethereum. WorkLingo.dev is an app localization engine for developers | TechCrunch “We were two people, full time, but with some contractors for various things now and then,” Prilutskiy added. “But we know how to build things with minimal resources. Because the previous company was bootstrapped, so we had to find a way for that to work. And we are replicating the same lean style — but now with funding.” WorkBiogen partners with Stoke Therapeutics to sell severe epilepsy drug “I got very little sleep [Friday] night. It was just such an emotional thing for me,” she told STAT’s Anil Oza at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston. “They are numbers to most people, but they are people to me, who have now lost their jobs and whose talents won’t be used the way they have been.” WorkWorkCould SSRIs protect against infections? A mouse study has hints And for more context: The study published one day after one of President Trump’s latest executive orders establishing a “Make America Healthy Again Commission,” which, among many other directives, will “assess the prevalence of and threat posed by the prescription of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, stimulants, and weight-loss drugs.” WorkUS seeks to reset tense ties with Russia - WSJ (No paywall) RIYADH, Saudi ArabiaThe Trump administration is trying to reset Washingtons tense relations with Moscow and move the Ukraine conflict toward an end in the highest-profile meeting between the two nations in years, which has unsettled Americas allies in Europe. WorkWorkWork TradeBriefs Publications are read by over 100,000 Industry Executives About Us | Advertise | Privacy PolicyUnsubscribe (one-click) You are receiving this mail because of your subscription with TradeBriefs.
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