| No Images? Click here   Boris Johnson has warned a London City Hall watchdog that it has no right or remit to investigate his relationship with businesswoman Jennifer Arcuri, HuffPost UK can reveal.A letter, from the prime minister’s lawyers to the head of the London Assembly oversight committee, challenges its demands for “extensive” details of his links to Arcuri. It also suggests that it is not in “the public interest” for an Assembly investigation to take place as it “risked becoming politicised”.  Four people have been injured after a reported knife attack in Manchester’s Arndale Centre, according to reports.Police are at the scene and the building has been evacuated.  The five-year-old daughter of British-Iranian woman Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has returned to the UK, meeting her father Richard again for the first time in more than three years.Gabriella has been living with her grandparents in Tehran and visiting her mother in the notorious Evin Prison since her mother was arrested on spying charges more than three years ago.  Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia has won 2019′s prestigious Nobel Peace Prize for his peacemaking efforts with Eritrea.He joins the ranks of previous winners including Nelson Mandela, Jimmy Carter and Mikhail Gorbachev.  Rebekah Vardy has broken her silence after Coleen Rooney turned detective to allege her friend’s Instagram account was the source of leaked stories about her private life appearing in the tabloid press.But instead of white flags or olive branches, we’ve got... a pigeon analogy.   Sarah*, 27, and her boyfriend, Tom*, 26 have been together for a year. There’s no major issue in their relationship, but for the past four months they’ve been going to couples counselling.It was Sarah’s idea at first. She was frustrated. They weren’t communicating properly. The way she saw it, she was more emotionally literate than he was. “Every time we argued, I was leading it, and sometimes I felt like I was delivering a monologue because he just didn’t know what to say. It doesn’t make for very fruitful arguments,” she says.  It was a cold, grey, Autumn Tuesday in October when a flurry of notifications hit my Twitter mentions.As a “lady no-one has ever heard of”, to quote my new fans, it was more notifications than a “special snowflake” like me usually gets. One click and all was revealed: Piers Morgan had quote tweeted me. Coming out as a gay Christian can be harder than coming out as gay at all. That might seem strange, as the message at the heart of the gospel is to “love your neighbour, as yourself”.Jesus did not add an addendum to this; he did not put “apart from gay people” in brackets. Yet in my experience that’s exactly what some churches have done when it comes to sexuality. The very places where everyone should feel loved and welcomed, LGBT people are so often rejected. The fancy word for Elizabeth is metamour, but I prefer “sister wife” or “my husband’s girlfriend.” My husband started dating her about a year ago, and since then she has become one of my best friends. I’ve never been someone into monogamy, and most of my adult relationships have had some level of openness.When I met my spouse ― a queer, non-binary person with a disability ― eight years ago, he understood that I was not okay with long-term monogamy. We got married about six months after meeting, primarily for health insurance purposes. My husband was a single dad of three kids, and while I’m sure it seemed reckless, we fit together well as a unit of five and knew we would be together for a long time.  New to this email? You can sign up here.©2019 Oath (UK) | Midcity Place, 71, High Holborn, London WC1V 6EA |
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