A charity which aims to kick racism out of sport could sue Reform UK after a council withdrew support for the organisation.

Chris Eynon, the leader of Sunderland City Council, said the local authority would no longer back “politically charged organisations with an agenda”.

He also accused Ged Grebby, chief executive of Show Racism The Red Card, of “stark political bias” over comments he has made criticising Reform.

Speaking to HuffPost UK, Grebby said he was expressing his own personal opinion rather than the charity’s, which he insisted has cross-party support.

He said any suggestions that Show Racism The Red Card was a political organisation “could cause huge damage” to the organisation.

Grebby said: “It’s a very serious accusation to say a charity is being party political.

“If Reform are making false accusations against us, our lawyer will look into whether it is libel.”

He added: “I’ve got a right to have my own political views, and I stand by comments I’ve made about Nigel Farage and Reform being dangerous. But as a charity we need to be cross-party.”

He said any suggestion that Show Racism The Red Card is linked to the Labour Party was “absolute nonsense”.

“As a charity we’ve got the support of the SNP, Plaid Cymru and the Greens,” Grebby said. “We’ve always worked with other political parties.”

Sunderland City Council has supported the charity since it was set up 30 years ago.

In the last year, the funding it received from the authority trained 250 teachers and educated 1,675 young people in the local area about tackling racism.

Grebby said the charity had been planning to re-apply for funding from the council, but now there was “no point”.

“The damage will be that we’re unable to provide those programmes in future,” he said.

Asked about Sunderland City Council’s decision on LBC, Reform home affairs spokesman Robert Jenrick refused to criticise them.

He said he had “not seen the evidence” behind the claim that Show Racism The Red Card is a “politically-charged organisation”.

But in a later post on X, Jenrick accused Grebby of being “a left-wing political activist”.

He said: “Residents would be right to question whether this organisation should be supported financially by their council under Mr Grebby’s leadership.

“Taxpayers shouldn’t be paying the wages of political activists like Mr Grebby. If Show Racism The Red Card wants to command public support, and receive public money and charitable status, I’d suggest they look for a new CEO.”

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Kaya Scodelario has admitted she has mixed feelings at the thought of her character in The Gentlemen ending up with Theo James’ Eddie.

The former Skins star recently reprised her role as Susie in Guy Ritchie’s hit Netflix crime drama, which returned for its long-awaited second season earlier this month.

She was once again paired up with White Lotus alum Theo in the new run of episodes, and even as their characters’ lives continued in more complicated directions, many fans remain keen to see Susie and Eddie getting together in the show’s future.

Asked about this during an interview with Cosmopolitan, Kaya claimed this is a subject she “really doesn’t know” how she feels about.

“It’s a lot more complicated than that,” she replied when asked about the suggestion that the pair are one another’s “endgame”. “Things take quite a darker turn. They don’t have time to go out on dates or pause everything that’s going on to talk about the puppies that they had growing up.

“They both are really aware that they do have chemistry, but they’re both very focused on their missions and that’s their endgame at the moment. But who knows?”

Speaking more broadly about Susie and Eddie’s unique bond in season two, Kaya noted: “[Their relationship] has evolved from this kinship, a purely business thing, into something deeper and more interesting.

“It was important to unlock whether she feels protective of him in a personal way or purely in a business sense.”

She continued: “She sees something in him that’s extremely unique. She’s worked with these kinds of aristocrats for a long time and she recognizes something in Eddie that is different—a fire beneath him that needs to be molded correctly.

“They genuinely work really well together. That’s something that she’s never encountered before. He sees in her what she wishes her father could see in her. Their work wife–work husband chemistry is really strong.”

Earlier this month, Theo James cast doubt on things ever turning romantic between his and Kaya’s characters.

“Our touching point in the beginning was always Moonlighting — Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis — and the idea of two people who kind of are in love, but never quite get together,” he told The Hollywood Reporter. “That’s a baseline.

“But in season two, we like the idea that they’re connected, but their distance is one of mistrust. On one hand, they’re the other’s greatest ally. But they are also heading to a path where one of them has to usurp the other because we’re talking about a kind of ascension story and how that’s going to happen, and who’s going to fail and who’s going to win.”

“There’s a sadness [to the relationship] because maybe they would, but ultimately they probably never can,” he added.

Both seasons of The Gentlemen are now streaming on Netflix, with a third having already been given the green light.

According to a paper published in JAMA Psychiatry, the types of people who get diagnosed with ADHD or autism have changed in the past decade or so.

Compared to people diagnosed with these forms of neurodivergence a decade or more ago, a Danish study found that children and adolescents with ADHD or autism now have more characteristics in common with the general population.

Until 2012, young people with either diagnosis tended to have been born at lower birth weights, while their parents were more likely than those of undiagnosed kids and teens to have lower education rates and less household income.

But those links seem to have become “weaker” over the years, with more recently-diagnosed young people increasingly presenting similarly to their neurotypical peers.

Here, we asked Professor Laura Crane, a Chair in Autism Studies at the University of Birmingham and Director of the Autism Centre for Education and Research (ACER), to weigh in on these findings.

Let’s start with what researchers don’t think is happening here.

The study authors stressed that these results “do not show that these conditions are being overdiagnosed or that they have become less severe”, though they could help explain why ADHD and autism diagnoses have risen so sharply.

Instead, the study may “indicate that the population receiving these diagnoses has changed over time, and this needs to be taken into account when interpreting current trends”.

One explanation, Prof Crane said, is that we’re simply getting better at spotting autism and ADHD in cases that would have previously been missed.

“Historically, diagnoses were often reserved for people whose differences and support needs were quite specific and quite overt,” she told us.

“Greater awareness of autism – among the general public as well as healthcare professionals – means that many individuals who may previously have gone unrecognised (e.g., autistic women and girls, who have been shown to internalise or mask their autistic characteristics) are now being identified”.

That could mean more people, including those whose “day-to-day experiences appear more similar (at least on the surface) to those of their non-diagnosed peers”, are no longer going under the radar.

The authors of the paper write that differences in who gets diagnosed do not mean the neurodivergent experiences they live with are “less impairing on the individual level”.

Interestingly, Professor Crane says, “researchers are recognising that the difficulties neurodivergent people face arise not simply from characteristics within the individual, but from the interaction between those characteristics and the environment the person is in”.

Therefore, the “severity” of a person’s ADHD or autism might not rely entirely on static conditions within the person diagnosed. The professor pointed to research that argues the world around that person can make their neurodiversity more or less challenging.

For instance, the UCL paper suggests that workplaces and schools are becoming more results-driven and demanding.

“As such, people with less overt autistic characteristics may still experience significant difficulties – across a range of areas of their life – because of the mismatch between their characteristics and what their environment expects of them,” Prof Crane suggested.

“Overall then, I think these findings likely reflect a combination of factors, including broader recognition of autism and ADHD and changes in who receives a diagnosis,” she ended.

“But they don’t necessarily mean that these diagnoses have become less significant or impairing. Often due to the mismatch between the person and the environment, many neurodivergent people continue to face substantial barriers across education, employment, healthcare and everyday life.”

Children chat about a lot of pretty odd stuff (remember Ballerina Cappuccina?) – however if you’ve heard them mention ‘gooning’ in conversation with their mates, or during gaming, it’s certainly worth pulling them up on it.

While you might consider ‘gooning’ as messing around or even goofing about (that’s what first came to my mind), per Mashable, it actually means “masturbating for a prolonged period of time, usually hours, without ever climaxing”.

In online spaces, it can also refer to zoning out as a result of intense sexual arousal, which Gabb (a company providing child-safe phones and tech) notes is “most often in the context of pornography”.

The issue is, if tweens and teens are using this terminology, chances are they are coming across pornography or inappropriate content online.

It’s not uncommon – over one-quarter (27%) of kids have come across pornography by age 11, according to a survey by the Children’s Commissioner.

While children shouldn’t be easily coming across porn due to stricter regulation as part of the Online Safety Act, they may still find ways to access it.

If your tween or teen is talking about gooning, even if it’s just joking with friends, it’s definitely worth asking them about it.

If they are getting involved in this activity, Fiona Yassin, a family psychotherapist, told HuffPost UK: “There’s a real neurodevelopmental risk here. During adolescence, the brain is still under construction – very much a work in progress – and when it’s repeatedly flooded with high-intensity sexual content, it drives spikes in dopamine that can create a pathway towards compulsive cycles.

“Over time, young people may need more and more intensity to achieve the same effect, which mirrors the mechanisms we see in other forms of addiction. That’s particularly concerning in a developing brain.”

Yassin, who is the founder and clinical director of The Wave Clinic, also warned that it can impact social development (zoning out in front of a screen might increase isolation, anxiety and low mood) and attachment, particularly as far as sexual relationships are concerned.

“This can disrupt the development of healthy attachment, increasing impulsivity, risk-taking, and a disregard for personal and relational safety,” she explained.

Teens who are exposed to this kind of content can also begin to develop unrealistic expectations of themselves and others, particularly as far as sex and relationships are concerned.

“It can encourage objectification, a sense of disposability in relationships, and a reduced capacity for genuine intimacy – building, sustaining, and nurturing connection,” said Yassin.

Ultimately, she warned, “it can shift how young people see others, which can lead to the oversexualisation of what would otherwise be non-sexual interactions”.

“That has wide-reaching implications for how they relate, connect, and develop into adulthood.”

Some children might use the word without fully understanding where it comes from and the potential impact on others. So, the key here is to be curious about where they’ve heard the term and what they think it means – which can help steer your conversations going forward.

“Rather than reacting with frustration or alarm, the most effective starting point for parents is to stay calm and curious,” said Yassin.

“Parents may ask: ‘What does this word mean to you?’ or ‘What do you think someone else might hear or feel when that word is used?’. Like many aspects of child and adolescent mental health, this situation offers a valuable teaching and learning opportunity.”

If they do know the full meaning, the therapist urges parents to seize the opportunity for age-appropriate honesty. “Teens, in particular, are more likely to engage when they feel respected, rather than lectured,” she added.

“Parents can gently widen the conversation to the bigger picture, which might include the consequences of the word, how pornography can shape expectations, impact mental health, and, in some cases, lead to more compulsive patterns of behaviour.”

Action for Children has a few helpful pointers for talking to kids about porn, but ultimately it advises parents to reassure kids it’s OK to feel curious about sex, while also explaining that “porn is unrealistic” and it “can be harmful for them to watch it”.