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Polly HudsonThe Guardian |
The answers to some little questions are hugely revealing. We pass it off as small talk, but asking about somebody’s first anything often reveals...
Rats in labs eventually work out which behaviour stops the electric shocks, but I had to be taught by a podcast. Comedian Hannah Berner was a recent...
Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me ... must be a saying thought up by somebody extremely privileged. For everyone else,...
Medication can have a wide array of side-effects, which now apparently includes penny-pinching. In the newsletter the Daily Skimm, a reader had a...
It’s hard to pinpoint the moment something shifts from unfashionable to taboo, but it feels as if we’re there. With a “hot divorcee summer” on...
The first I knew of Rebekah Vardy was when she appeared after more dots than anybody has ever used before, in the whodunnit denouement of Wagatha...
Rosamund Pike probably lost a fan last weekend, while simultaneously gaining many more. The secret texter she called out without identifying...
There are some events so momentous that you always remember where you were when you heard about them. They’re usually historic, frequently shocking,...
This sounds like an old-fashioned, “take my mother-in-law” type joke, but is the antithesis of funny: one in five British people would swap their...
Nepo babies provoke a unique brand of ire. Fittingly, they seem to bring out the toddler in many of us; a foot-stamping tantrum sense of but that’s...
No matter the rumours, no matter the truth, Hollywood convention dictates that all actors describe whatever cast they’ve been part of as “one big...
I nearly drove into a wall the other day, because I couldn’t take my eyes off some spectacular wisteria. Ten years ago I doubt I would have even...
Sometimes you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone. A person, place or thing you perhaps took for granted exits your existence, and only...
How do you tell the difference between a sign from the universe and a coincidence? It’s been a challenging couple of weeks in my house, because my...
Four people have joined the tiny percentage of humans who can say they have come back to Earth with a bump, literally. Welcome home, Artemis II crew:...
Some new academic research into parenthood has caused quite a stir, by revealing that having children doesn’t make you happier. Some were outraged...
It takes a certain kind of bravery to speak out on behalf of a much-maligned group, so thank you, Mark Travers, PhD. This American psychologist has...
He is one letter away from being a household name. Now Josh Wardle, the inventor of Wordle, has launched a new online game, and in doing so, provided...
Sunday lunch guests often check in the day before, but this text was different. Rather than making sure of the time, or wondering what to bring, it...
How well do any of us really know our friends? You may be confident of the answer to that, feel secure – smug, even – but be warned. One day, a...
Pamela Anderson has been married five times. She has made the kind of romantic decisions – impulsive, reckless, incorrigible – that suggest...
You might at first be tempted to mark the date and write down the exact time, certain that this was the moment we really had heard it all. A new...
Moan all you like about technology, there’s no denying it’s made friendship easier. In an ideal world you would spend quality time together, have...
A doctor has gone viral – which sounds like the beginning of a dad joke, but isn’t – with a hack for getting back to sleep if you wake at 3am....
Katherine Ryan’s podcast is called Telling Everybody Everything, and she does. The comedian is honest to a fault: her comments are regularly...
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