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• How sorry are you? Why learning to apologise well could save your relationships

  28-06-2025 22:00
  Does a good apology contain five steps, seven steps – even eight? And why do we find it so difficult?Get our weekend culture and lifestyle emailGot something to say sorry for? Here are words that have no place in your apologies, according to those who have spent years analysing them: “It was not my intent”. “What I meant was”. “Sorry you misunderstood”. And any use of the word “obviously”.Marjorie Ingall and Susan McCarthy call it “bad
  
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• Pride Month Photos Show Celebrations Around the World

  28-06-2025 15:17 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: CBS News - World NewsWrapped in multicolored flags and waving protest signs, revelers across the globe have gathered throughout June for Pride events—a monthlong celebration of the LGBTQ community that also symbolizes an ongoing fight for equal rights. The roots of Pride Month stretch back to June 28, 1969, when a police raid on New York City's Stonewall Inn, a gay bar, led to the Stonewall Uprising—a demonstration that's now considered the start of the LGBTQ...
  
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• Hungary Pride Goes Ahead, Defying Orban Threat of "Legal Consequences"

  28-06-2025 15:17 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: BBC News - EuropeTens of thousands have gathered for the Budapest Pride march, defying Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's legal threats against LGBTQ rights activists. Organizers say a record 200,000 people may have taken part despite mounting pressure from conservative politicians and police to stop any display of pro-LGBTQ material. The police had issued a ban in line with a new "child protection" law restricting gatherings considered to be promoting...
  
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