Life and style

I’ve finally got round to fixing up my house – and it’s given me a radical idea | Nell Frizzell

Here is a short and by no means comprehensive list of things that have been at the bottom of my fruit bowl for...

Toxic people: is avoiding them the real secret to longevity? | Friendship

Name: Toxic people.Age: They can be any age.Appearance: They can look like anyone.Then how am I supposed to know who they are? You...

How did ‘rawdogging’ become part of polite conversation? | Arwa Mahdawi

So, what do we think? Come December, is “rawdogging” going to be Oxford University Press’s word of the year? It’s certainly a strong...

A moment that changed me: I had a drunken idea to start a music festival – so I sold my house | End of...

I was always obsessed with music. I would play, badly, in bands, go to all the gigs and festivals I could, and lie...

‘Very rude’: the late Queen’s salty verdict on Donald Trump | Queen Elizabeth II

Name: Rude Trump.Age: The former US president, Donald Trump, met the late Queen Elizabeth II on a couple of occasions: tea at Windsor...

‘I just wanted peace’: my 35-year fight to bring my abusive father to justice | Rape and sexual assault

When Carol Higgins was 15, she walked into Penistone police station in South Yorkshire with her mother to report that her father, Elliott...

Splashing in the Seine, diving in the Danube: the drive to make cities swimmable | Architecture

On a summer morning in the Swiss city of Basel, groups of commuters bob merrily down the Rhine. They’re not on boats but...

What does it mean to be 16 today? It is totally different to when I was growing up | Zoe Williams

Ah, August, the month where you have to hear again what Jeremy Clarkson got in his A-levels, to be juxtaposed delightfully (he thinks)...

The pet I’ll never forget: Reuben the ambitious, accident-prone St Bernard who loved people and cars alike | Dogs

We never intended to have a dog, and certainly not a St Bernard. Reuben started his life in a Glasgow flat, his owners...

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