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Greg James opened up on his family situation three years after his wife's miscarriage (Image: GETTY) SUBSCRIBE Invalid email We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Greg James, 37, and his wife, Bella Mackie, 39, are perfectly content with being child-free for the moment, as the Radio 1 DJ assured they have “plenty of time”. In 2020, the journalist revealed she had suffered a miscarriage which took a devastating toll on her mental health. Related articles Elton John joins growing list of celebs to snub Harry and Meghan Neighbours actor Peter Hardy found dead on Australian beach aged 66 Now, speaking to Men’s Health UK , Greg explained that he and Bella are simply “monitoring” the child situation, rather than actively trying to have … [Read more...] about Greg James and wife say ‘no to kids’ as friends make them ‘look hard’

In his early years as a prosecutor, Robert M. Morgenthau was once asked about the most effective way to fight organized crime. At the time, Mr. Morgenthau had made a name for himself as a United States attorney by indicting more than 100 Mafia figures. Mr. Morgenthau raised a novel strategy. “Maybe we ought to declare a moratorium on the prosecution of organized crime for five to 10 years,” he told Victor S. Navasky for a New York Times Magazine article in 1970 . “And let them become so rich that they will give up their predatory instincts and they’ll be much more concerned about getting their children into college, law school, medical school and so forth, and they’ll have lost their desire.” He never did declare that moratorium. His years of doing battle with crime in all forms were just beginning. Mr. Morgenthau, now 97 and still working five days a week, was the district attorney for Manhattan from 1975 until he retired at age 90 in 2009, during which time crime in New York … [Read more...] about Robert Morgenthau on His Years as District Attorney: ‘I Don’t Look Back’

Imagine walking into a party where you know almost no one (pathetic) — a party at which I, a stranger to you (probably), have arrived well before you (sorry). Should this occur in real life, it is inevitable that shortly after your entrance, as you are tentatively probing the scene in search of safe ingress into social traffic, I will yank you, abruptly, into the middle of a conversation. I will turn to you and start talking as if you’d been involved in the discussion for an hour. I will lob questions at you that are tailored so that any answer you give can be right. Soon, you will forget I dragged you into this interaction; your easy popularity will seem, in retrospect, inevitable. You will most likely feel at least vaguely friendly toward me, because I so clearly want to be your friend. And the whole time I am doing this — because, despite your rewritten recollections, I am the one doing all of this — I will be thinking: Oh, my God, I’m doing it again. I hate this. I hate this. Why … [Read more...] about 13 Women, 30 Activities and One Goal: Make Friends