From Agatha Christie doing the dishes to the cancer surgeon inspired at the theatre, an idling brain suddenly seems able to join the dots If you really want to solve a problem, try doing nothing about it. Fold some laundry. Stir a risotto. Go for a run, watch…
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Activate fresh-start mode with our fashion editor’s favourites for 2026 – including an unlikely new obsession Are we ready for 2026? Ready as we’ll ever be, right? We’ve got this, team. Time to turn the page and kick things forward, with the help of a few key…
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The instrument’s biggest difficulty is simultaneously its greatest joy – to make a sweet sound you must relax More summer essentials I knew the violin was an unforgiving instrument but I had always wanted to play it. I didn’t make the decision to learn lightl…
The billionaire – who had no government experience – left various federal agencies in disarray while overseeing an ‘efficiency’ drive across Washington As Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, splurged more than $250m on Donald Trump’s 2024 re-election campa…
If you don’t fancy the last warm finger or two of beer in your can, save it to bake into these fluffy, flavourful rolls I often don’t finish a large bottle or can of beer, leaving a bit in the bottom that barely seems worth saving. When I remember, I’ll pop i…
I wasn’t sure journalism was for me until I ended up in a bar with a group of lawless, funny co-workers who complained long and hard about the panther suspended above us in a cage In the mid-90s, I was working as an admin assistant on the listings magazine of…
At 50, I find myself in a gazing-up-at-trees phase. What does it all mean? It’s not completely clear – but it’s certainly bothering my kids According to research undertaken by Stanford Medicine in 2024, adult human beings are subject to two “massive biomolecu…
As young people take on a messy dating landscape, they’ve created their own lexicon to match. Here’s like what phrases ‘bird theory’ and ‘monkey branching’ mean This year marked a decade since the term “ghosting” hit the mainstream. At the time, the idea that…
