I have given up grooming. Welcome to hot crone… I find myself confronted, yet again, by summer grooming dilemmas, even though I don’t believe in either summer, or…
I’m stressing about ultra-processed foods, when… I am increasingly uneasy about this UPF business. If you have been worrying about bigger things – the Kakhovka dam,…
You can get Sad in summer – as I know only too… I don’t really understand why I’m still on Twitter, a mouse hopefully pressing the button that used to dispense…
Failure isn’t shameful – in fact, it’s the… High school students in the US are tackling the brutal process of college applications with rejection parties, the…
Can ‘monk mode’ TikTokkers help improve my… On TikTok, thousands of men suggest monasticism will make us more effective human beings. But there is something…
The Finns hold the secret of happiness – and it… I’m loth to share this, because I want to win myself, but Visit Finland is running a competition to take part in a…
Life online is a choking, oppressive smog.… On the rack of magazines by the supermarket tills, I’m always brought up short by Teen Breathe magazine. Don’t get…
Covid was devastating – why are we pretending it… My best friend has been ill and it’s taken both of us back to March 2020. For her, it’s reawakening the real trauma…
I am getting into neo-nihilism – it is so… You probably knew this already, but nihilism is in. I’m a chronically late adopter – I only found out about skinny…
I felt at peace in my local Turkish baths. How… Carlisle council has just voted to close the city’s Edwardian municipal Turkish baths “temporarily”, pending a…