Few of us can know the true pain that the parents of those children murdered in cold blood in Sri Lanka must be enduring. It is unimaginable, unfathomable, inconceivable. But looking at the photograph of 15-year-old Amelie Linsey (pictured) — same age as my daughter, at school not far from our home in London — it is hard not to weep at the thought of her poor father, who was forced to leave her with another survivor while he took his seriously injured son Daniel to hospital, only to lose both. ...read
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Spare me the p@$$w0rd tyranny, cries an often-locked-out SARAH VINE as we are told computer security is STILL too easy to crack
This weekend cyber chiefs issued a red alert, encouraging the nation’s web users to upgrade their online security after revealing millions of us use passwords that are as basic as ‘123456’ or ‘password’. According to the UK Government’s cyber and security organisation GCHQ, nearly one in two of us can expect to have money stolen online by 2021 — and it’s all because we don’t take our passwords seriously enough. So if you’re one of the millions of online users whose password is simply ‘qwerty’ (the first five letters on the top row of your keyboard), or your birthday backwards, then you had better forget about enjoying the rest of your Bank Holiday weekend — and get yourself to password rehab, pronto. ...read
SARAH VINE: Oh baby, Meghan's got a lot to learn when it comes to the unexpected complications childbirth can bring
SARAH VINE: As we know, Meghan — due any day now — is planning a midwife-led home labour, away from the ‘men in suits’. She also reportedly favours a water birth, and is using yoga, meditation and homeopathy to prepare for the arrival. Apparently, she wants it to be ‘as natural as possible: no drugs, no caesareans and so on’. I have nothing against home births, water births — or for that matter any kind of birth. It’s just that having babies is not an exact science. Labour can, it is true, be a beautiful experience. But it can also be savage and elemental. And you never really know how it’s going to pan out. To be prepared, a woman really needs to be open to all eventualities. ...read