The fitness coach talks about tubs of ice-cream, pints of coke, cleaning the dishes and getting the workouts out of the way
Up early? Usually 7.30am β not super early. I get up and do my workouts to get them out of the way.
Advice for Sunday slobs? If youβre hectic and stressed through the week, you should see the weekend as a chance to exercise, prep meals and get an early night, because what you do on the weekend determines how you feel on Monday.
Were Sundays always healthy? No. Years ago Iβd be coming out of a nightclub at 3am. I met my wife, Rosie, at a rave. I like a day on the sofa watching movies, having a cuddle, but itβs not like when we had one baby who slept all day. The kids demand attention.
What are you watching? Rosie and I just watched Baby Reindeer. But with the kids β a five-year-old, a four-year-old, a one-year-old and one on the way β weβre more likely to be watching Kung Fu Panda or princess films on Disney.
What are you eating? I might make an egg and bacon sandwich for breakfast. I love going out for a good Sunday roast with a pint of coke and a sticky toffee pudding. Iβm quite greedy and could do a tub of Ben & Jerryβs in a single sitting. But not every day!
Sunday housework? I have to clean repeatedly. Iβll do breakfast, maybe a recipe, share a video, then do lunchβ¦ And I work from home. And Rosie works from home, too. I canβt keep up with all the cleaning.
Sunday arguments? Iβm good at cleaning the dishes, the bowls, the cups. But I get bored and lose attention with the knives and forks. And Iβll leave clothes in a pile on the chair, because I might change my outfit three times a dayβ¦
Sunday me-time? If the sunβs shining, Iβll go out for an hour or two on the motorbike β Iβve got a Triumph cruiser.
Labour and the Tories are avoiding talking about how to fund the overhaul of a system that is failing the elderly and people with disabilities
There is one pressing issue affecting millions of people that has been conspicuous in its absence from the general election campaign so far. The parlous state of social care in England β a system that has been described as being in crisis for well over a decade β is leaving too many older people and those with disabilities without the personal care they need to lead a full and dignified life, with their relatives struggling to fill in as muchΒ as they can.
Yet neither of the main political parties seems willing to have an honest conversation with voters about the cost of a care system that caters for an ageing society, and on whose shoulders it should fall.
How to achieve that natural, sunkissed finish β without baking in the sun
Iβm sure bronzers have been explained to everyone β including myself β a million times. What they are, what they do, how to use them and yetβ¦ people still havenβt quite grasped exactly how to use them. Or perhaps they just havenβt found one that works for them. So letβs go back to basics. Sometimes itβs easier to start with what something is not as opposed to what it is. The purpose of a bronzer is not to make you bronze. If you are already using a bronzer that is doing this, you have the wrong product (but, of course, if your whole point is to actually look bronze, then good luck with that). A bronzer is essentially a bit of makeup that is supposed to give your skin a boost so it looks less pallid, more alive, happier and healthier. Essentially, it offers a natural, sunkissed finish without the damage that comes from the sun. Choosing the right shade is key β better to start with something subtle and work your way up β and texture also makes a difference. The bronzers on this page β liquid, cream and powder β are formulated in a way that is pliable and therefore makes applying them easier and more or less failsafe β even for the heavy handed. Crucially, the finishes are created to complement real skin tones, which minimises the likelihood of you looking like a toasted orange.
1. Isle of Paradise Sunny Serum Β£15.95, lookfantastic.com 2. Giorgio Armani Beauty Bronzing Powder Β£46, selfridges.com 3. NARS Laguna Ultimate Face Palette Β£60, narscosmetics.co.uk 4. Indeed Nanobronze Deep Bronzing Drops Β£24.99, boots.com 5. Fenty Sun Stalkβr Bronzer Β£29, fentybeauty.co.uk 6. Clinique Sunkissed Face Gelee Β£32, johnlewis.com 7. Saie Dew Liquid Bronzer Β£20, cultbeauty.co.uk
8. Clarins Bronzing Powder Β£40, clarins.co.uk 9. Chanel Les Beiges Healthy Glow Sun-Kissed Powder Β£75, chanel.com 10. Beauty Pie Awesome Bronze Β£16.50, beautypie.com
USA 197-3 beat Canada 194-5 by seven wickets in Dallas, Texas
Jones (94*), Gous (65) guide co-hosts to win with 131-run stand
Build it, and they will come. The great American cricket experiment got underway on Saturday night, when the USA beat Canada by seven wickets in the opening match of the T20 World Cup at the little ground in Grand Prairie, Texas. And hellβs bells if it wasnβt, in its own little way, one of the gameβs great occasions.
A crowd of around 5,000 were treated to a brilliantly freewheeling innings by the USAβs Aaron Jones, a pocket-rocket batsman who was born in Queens, and raised in Barbados. Jones clobbered 10 sixes, one of them clean out of the ground, in an undefeated innings of 94 off just 40 balls.
Arrival of Israeli troops in the southern border town has choked aid supplies, as hunger deepens in southern Gaza
Fayiz Abu Ataya was born into war and knew nothing else. Over his first and only spring, in a town stalked by hunger, he wasted away to a shadow of a child, skin stretched painfully over jutting bones.
In seven months of life, he had little time to make a mark beyond the family who loved him. But when his death from malnutrition was reported last week, it sounded a warning around the world about a rapidly deepening crisis in central and southern Gaza, triggered by the Israeli military operation in the southern town of Rafah.
Keir Starmer launched his campaign bus on Saturday with his senior shadow cabinet members, but Tory βbig beastsβ appeared to have deserted the PM in Redcar
We may be in an era when elections are fought with TikTok memes and Instagram reels, but one thing has stubbornly refused to give way in the digital age: the good old battle of the campaign buses. On Saturday, Rishi Sunak unveiled the Conservativesβ bus that will tour the country during the 2024 election, emblazoned with the slogan: βClear plan. Bold action. Secure future.β
It is β arguably β a slightly snappier version of John Majorβs bus in 1997, which bore the words: βYou can only be sure with the Conservatives.β
Outdoor campaign events, so often fraught with peril, proved the undoing of Rishi Sunak and Ed Davey this week
It has been tough for Rishi Sunak, so itβs nice that he still has some cheerleaders. A visibly tricky encounter with some cones during a football training session may have resulted in him being mocked mercilessly on TikTok, but one loyal newspaper described his troubling manoeuvre as a Cruyff turn, a move named after the beguiling Dutch great. Not since Kim Jong-il scored 11 holes in one in his first ever round of golf has a leaderβs sporting prowess had such an unlikely upgrade.
Trust your gut instinct about not having him there. The shame that is creeping in may be about pressure to conform
The question Iβm a 30-year-old man who works in mental health. Iβm due to get married in a few monthsβ time. I donβt want to invite my father. He and I have been estranged for several years. We have each otherβs mobile numbers, but we donβt use them. My father has a lifelong alcohol-use disorder (AUD). He was a violent man. When I was 11, my mother managed to divorce him. Since then, we have mostly parted ways, but his side of the family still attempts to guilt-trip me into caring for him.
I have grown up, gone to college and am now enjoying my career. I have come to understand more about addiction. I donβt feel resentment towards him and tend to see this in a matter-of-fact way. I do not have any affection for this man, who happens to be my father. I have come to see him as any other person with AUD, but one who happens to have fathered me for a short period of time. (I donβt have fond memories of the time we shared in the same household.)
At Gerryβs the sandwich is elevated to a noble art, so roll up your sleeves and get stuck in
Gerryβs Hot Sub Deli, 50 Exmouth Market, London EC1R 4QE. Sandwiches Β£8.25-Β£13.50, poutine Β£6.75-Β£10.70, dessert Β£4.25, wine Β£6.95 a glass, beer Β£3.95 a half pint
Happiness is a handful of lunch and dressing running down your forearms. Certainly, anything that demands to be eaten alongside a roll of kitchen paper deserves to be taken seriously. By these criteria, which Iβve just invented, but now cleave to like holy scripture, the food at Gerryβs Hot Subs on Londonβs Exmouth Market deserves to be taken very seriously indeed. Lunch there is messy. Prepare to wipe yourself down afterwards or even nip home for a shower. But my, itβs good. The fact is, everybody can make themselves a sandwich, but you donβt want just anybody to make one for you. The frame is so very tight: some form of bread as vehicle for everything else. It demands a compulsive interest in detail combined with a profound understanding of what will make for a single, multi-textured mouthful. Followed by another and another.
Under proportional representation, people can be sure that their vote counts
Why does Sonia Sodha think it is acceptable to call me a crank (βIt is foolish and self-indulgent for the anti-Starmer left to split the Labour voteβ)? My views count and deserve respect. I am still a member of the Labour party for one reason only: to work within for reform of our voting system so that everyoneβs vote counts (not just those who live in marginal constituencies). My view is that Labour is misguided on the economy, wrong on climate, wrongΒ on Palestine and lacks vision and hope. That does not make me aΒ crank.
With proportional representation, the Green party could be assured its votes would convert into seats in the House of Commons and would not have to focus on areas where its vote is concentrated enough for a chance to get an MP. People could vote for the party they support, knowing their vote would lead to representation. Blame the voting system, not me. Aileen McLoughlin
Bristol
Roxanne de Bastionis honouring the memory of her brilliant Hungarian ancestor to keep his legacy alive
My family has a piano. Its keys are weathered from touch. It has tiny marks on the top right corner where my dad used to gnaw at the wood with his baby teeth.
I always knew this instrument to be special. It felt out of place in our otherwise modest family home (none of my friends had a battle-scarred baby grand in their living rooms, thatβs for sure).
Even her toughest opponents admit sheβs played it cleverly. Yet the long-term aims of Italyβs prime minister remain unclear
When she became Italyβs prime minister in October 2022, Giorgia Meloni looked like Brusselsβ worst nightmare. Until then, the fiery leader of the Brothers of Italy β a party with neofascist roots β had seemed anything but EU-friendly.
For years, railing against the bloc had been Meloniβs stock in trade: the euro amounted to enslavement, the European Commission was effectively a loan shark. βBring down this EU!β she urged the 2019 conservative CPAC conference in the US.
Deontay Wilderβs career as an elite heavyweight came to a crashing end. For Daniel Dubois, the journey into the top flight is only just beginning. And the unceasing, unsentimental round-and-round of boxingβs glamour division turned in dramatic fashion early Sunday morning in the an-Nafud desert.
Wilder, who held the WBCβs version of the heavyweight title from 2015 through 2020, suffered a brutal fifth-round knockout at the hands of Zhilei Zhang in the main event of a joint Matchroom-Queenbury card that pitted the stables of British boxingβs leading promoters against one another.
Dong Jun rails at length about democratic islandβs βseparatistsβ during Shangri-la Dialogue defence conference in Singapore
Peaceful βreunificationβ with Taiwan remains Chinaβs goal but the prospect is being eroded by Taiwanese βseparatistsβ and external forces, the Chinese defence minister, Dong Jun, has said.
Questions for officials after final delayed following kick-off
Police make 53 arrests over βattempts to breach securityβ
Wembley officials were left embarrassed after three pitch invaders caused a delay to the Champions League final between Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund despite the presence of more than 2,500 stewards as part of increased security measures.
An 18-month operation had been put in place in an attempt to avoid a repeat of violent scenes that marred the Euro 2020 final between England and Italy, with a large police presence at Wembley and throughout London.
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