Society

The last time Elliot Page appeared in a film, it was literally a car crash. Page, who was nominated for an Oscar at...

Name: Topless men.Age: As old as men.Appearance: Highly seasonal, increasingly objectionable.Who’s objecting? Three-quarters of Britons, according to a new poll.That seems a bit...

Health and wellness advice tends to be obvious and irritating. Eat more vegetables! Drink less booze! Exercise! Who wants to hear all that,...

Name: The post-work pint.Age: Probably as old as work itself, but “Happy Hour” was a scheduled period of entertainment in the US navy...

We went 1,000 years, or maybe 10,000, without anyone ever mentioning menopause, and then we started mentioning it all the time – which...

I never go anywhere without a small, hard ball about my person. Sciatica, you see. In my case it involves a shooting pain...

I always take my camera when I go to a new place. I observe how people relate to each other – whether alone...

In 2018, I decided to walk away from a part-time PhD in creative writing. I was thousands of pounds down, with nothing to...

David Ireland is a worried man. The Northern Irish playwright’s darkly comic, deeply political works about the Troubles have prompted trigger warnings and...