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Oct 14, 2026 - Lifestyle

Lewis Barber alleges BitMEX sold derivatives to UK investors without regulatory approval and seeks the return of bitcoin he says he lost. The exchange says the claim has not been served. The post BitMEX Faces £20m UK Claim Over Crypto Derivatives appeared first on Grit Daily News.

Oct 14, 2026 - Lifestyle

There is a word for what happened to your Uber ride. It is not polite. Merriam-Webster added it to the dictionary anyway. en·shit·ti·fi·ca·tion \ en-ˈshi-tə-fə-ˈkā-shən \ (impolite): the final stage in a process by which a digital platform is gradually modified to maximize shareholder profits while degrading the experience of those who use the platform. […] The post Uber’s Enshittification Now Comes With Receipts appeared first on Grit Daily News.

Oct 14, 2026 - Lifestyle

Christopher Gardner, the author of Food Sense and director of nutrition studies at Stanford, says we have overcomplicated the question of what to eatFinally, some good news: eating well is more straightforward than you think. “There’s a lot of good science out there, and it mostly agrees,” says Stanford University’s director of nutrition studies and professor of medicine Christopher Gardner from his office in Palo Alto – beaming, bronzed and the picture of health.In the age of social media and wellness grift, we’ve overcomplicated the question of what to eat, he says. Continue reading...

Oct 14, 2026 - Lifestyle

I’ve been trying to quit the game for years. Just when I thought I was out, it pulled me back in …I hate golf. A good walk spoiled? The whole day spoiled, more like. As with many cases of hate, it has its roots in love. You see, I just love the feeling of hitting the ball sweetly. If you feel the same way, then you’re into golf; if you don’t, then you’re not. But I am, and from the moment I struck a ball sweetly for the first time, I was hooked. It happened playing my first proper round of golf, off the third tee at the Gower Golf Club. Woomph. Making hardly a sound and barely seeming to make an impact as club hit ball, off it went. And that was me.My logic ran that if I could play like that as an absolute beginner, imagine what I could do with a bit of practice. I strode up to my ball on the fairway and, swinging with great confidence, played an air shot. Missed it completely. Pretending this was but my practice swing, I tried again, and this time made contact with the ball, but mostly with the ground, causing lasting damage to the fairway. The ball advanced all of six inches. Welcome to golf. Continue reading...

Oct 14, 2026 - Lifestyle

Centuries of historical baggage surrounds this form of speech. But I’m vowing to overcome shame and connect with this part of my cultureDon’t get The Long Wave delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereRecently, my sister sent me and my mum a graphic promoting a Jamaican Patois (or Patwa) class on Instagram, organised by British teacher and author Naia Lewis. It was unlike anything I’d ever seen before – Patois and other Caribbean Creole forms of speech are rarely treated as legitimate languages.As a descendant of Caribbean migrants to the UK, I grew up surrounded by Patois, but had never practised speaking it. I wanted to go, but felt terrified of embarrassing myself. This week, I conquered that fear and explored why learning Patois and other Creole languages is so fraught and controversial across the diaspora. Continue reading...