New Brexit travel hope for under 30s as EU plan to relax visa rules in the works

[ BRUSSELS – British under-30s could soon find it easier to study, work and live in European Union countries, and vice versa, under plans unveiled by the European Commission on Thursday that aim to restore some freedoms lost under Brexit. The Commission on Thursday proposed opening talks with the UK on “an agreement to facilitate … Read more

We are in a sex drought

[ Given there are 788,000 OnlyFans users in the UK, that polyamory has become a buzzword among millennials and kink-focused dating apps have gone mainstream, you’d think everyone is sexually satisfied. But the reality couldn’t be further from that. A 2019 BMJ study found fewer than half of men and women aged 16 to 44 … Read more

Do you feel ‘meh’? This sociologist reveals five ways to get out of it

[ Sometimes, when you say the words “I’m fine,” you really do mean it. You’re not great, you’re not terrible, you’re just fine. You don’t exactly have much mojo, but you are able to keep going. You’re vaguely disillusioned about how your life turned out, but it’s not as though you hate it either. You … Read more

The secret destinations that travel agents visit on holiday

[ Despite the shift to online booking and travel agencies shutting up shop along high streets, the trusted travel agent has seen a comeback since the pandemic. Abta’s latest trends report found that more than a third of people it surveyed had booked a holiday with a travel professional in the past year, driven largely … Read more