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The pet I’ll never forget: Lilly the stubborn, perfect Frenchie, who bounded into our lives and took over | Life and style

Lilly came bounding into my family’s life in 2016 when we were trying to mend our broken hearts after losing our beloved French...

Smashing idea: how East Germany invented ‘unbreakable’ drinking glasses | Art and design

The glass is narrow at the bottom but bulges out a third of the way to the top. As with the classic British...

Be more avian! Why stressed Chinese students are pretending to be birds | Life and style

Name: Human birds.Age: SQUAWK!What? I’m asking about age, why are you squawking? TWIT TWOO!I get it, you’re being a bird. CHIRRUP CHIRRUP! And...

Why do I love Greggs? Let me count the ways | Zoe Williams

At the height of the vegan sausage roll furore, I was idly looking around for other things to like about Greggs, beyond that...

A bolt of lightning struck my plane – and I plunged 3,000m into a rainforest | Life and style

Juliane Diller’s mother had booked herself and her daughter seats in the penultimate row of Lansa flight 508 from Lima to Pucallpa in...

From RFK Jr’s dead bear to a shot dog, why do US politicians keep throwing us red meat? | Zoe Williams

I had never really engaged with how spooky Robert F Kennedy Jr looked until I saw him describe, in a video, the circumstances...

The £2.20 cup of tea: is this too much to pay for a hot drink? | Tea

Name: Tea.Age: Thousands of years old.Cost: £2.20.How much?! £2.20.For a teabag and some hot water? That’s an outrage. Well, it’s what the Toast...

The dead hang delight: how this quick, surprisingly simple exercise can change your life | Fitness

As a species, we humans have been hanging around for quite a while. Scientific opinions vary on when our ancestors stopped travelling by...

Reuse that teabag! Ignore that special offer! It’s time to join the underconsumer revolution | Emma Beddington

‘I never want to own anything again,” messaged my son, packing up after a year abroad. He was experiencing the self-loathing rite of...

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