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    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...

    The care-label queen: how Andrea Cheong will stop you buying bad clothes | Sustainable fashion

    Andrea Cheong wants to turn your clothes inside out. Or rather, she wants you to do it. The 32-year-old self-styled “fashion educator” from...

    The surprising shame of pet loss: ‘You are supposed to think humans are more important than animals’ | Pets

    Luís Costa published his first volume of poetry, Two Dying Lovers Holding a Cat, in November. “It is not about cats,” he said....

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