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Emma BeddingtonThe Guardian |
There’s bad news for me and my fellow Eeyores (there always is): a positive mindset could help you age better. Research led by Prof Becca Levy of...
‘I do feel I’ve wasted my life, really, living in a world of fictional characters,” said Ian Rankin – multi-award-winning author (more than...
Spring seems to be settling in and that’s great, but I have been recently reminded of one of its worst bits: not hay fever or wrong coat season, but...
‘People have to start going 90s,” according to the content creator Mike Sheffer. In other words: leave your phone at home. “In the 90s no one...
There is a new entry in the overstuffed “What fresh hell?” category for 2026 – people have started making butter while they run. “You may be...
I hope you don’t mind me saying that you are looking very nice today. Ugh, no, sorry, start again. I have been thinking a lot about compliments –...
I’ve just discovered the “90-second rule”, a concept neuroanatomist Dr Jill Bolte Taylor explored in her book, Whole Brain Living, back in 2021....
Can you know too much to have kids? “Maybe knowing too much about motherhood has ruined me,” journalist Andrea González-Ramírez mused on New...
I’m not proud to admit that I love property as entertainment, especially smooth-brained “reality” shows in which peptide-plumped, pilates-honed...
Oh no, striving is cool now. “Never stop grinding and listen … Stop doing anything else but working,” as Pharrell Williams told the Grammys...
Every few months, the world informs me I am disgusting in a new way (I should replace my pillows every two years; my toothbrush is a petri dish, etc)....
Are you bone-deep exhausted and struggling to cope? Do you have “insomnia, headaches, irritability, emotional flatness and a sense of being...
A bench in Bristol installed facing a brick wall has aroused local curiosity – why put it there? BBC West commented that it joined other perversely...
There’s a lot of complaining about the weather currently and I get it, it’s wet. Here in York the river is getting above itself yet again and the...