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Rich Pelley

Rich Pelley

The Guardian

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Could I still pass my driving test? Thirty years on, it’s time to find out

“There are a lot of idiots on the road … I mean, uneducated people, unaware of their surroundings,” Umar, my driving examiner, corrects himself....

30.10.2024 10

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Rich Pelley

Could Bear Grylls’ mental health app help a beta male like me? It kind of did

I have never really been one for self-improvement. Sure, I’ve got my faults (where do I start?), but hey, I’m still a (vaguely) functioning member...

10.10.2024 9

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Welcome aboard: I’m Rich. Easyjet is seeking older cabin crew, but would you want to fly with me?

For the life of me, I can’t work out how to open the damn aeroplane door from the inside. I’ve been shown three times by easyJet cabin crew...

09.09.2024 40

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Gambling advertising! It’s everywhere and everyone hates it! Or do they?

07.08.2024 7

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Men are proving their masculinity by ... staring at nothing for hours on end. Could I hack it?

I wonder if Heston Blumenthal gets free sandwiches at Heston service station? Didn’t he have a partnership with Waitrose? Or was it M&S? There’s...

07.08.2024 20

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Brits have never taken to teeny tiny swimming briefs – but with celebrities getting on board, I took the plunge

Europeans are better at almost everything than us Britons, from food, weather and Eurovision to – ahem – football. But one place they lose,...

21.07.2024 20

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High jinks, peer pressure, booze – and more booze: why do men behave so badly on stag dos?

The last hurrah? A collective show to the world of anarchic solidarity? A time to take stock, to be joyful, to be maudlin – perhaps all three? What...

05.06.2024 60

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My future is bleak: can I go on without the all-you-can-eat unlimited Premier Inn breakfast?

It’s 8:25am and I’ve made it down, bleary eyed, to breakfast at Premier Inn – all the more miraculous because I haven’t even stayed the night....

03.05.2024 30

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I recreated Gregg Wallace’s perfect Saturday. Let me tell you: nobody’s doing it like him

It’s 5am on Saturday morning and I’m barely awake, denied the snooze button, attempting to read 2016’s A Gentleman in Moscow by American...

11.02.2024 10

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