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  • Jerald Walker.

    I was a black child raised in a white supremacist cult. When doomsday didn’t come, I had to learn how to live

  • Zoe Williams

    Why is dating app Feeld so popular? Fetishes and throuples are only part of the story

    Zoe Williams
  • Ernest and Whitney Lai in their restaurant

    ‘Here the people know each other’: why do so many regional Australian towns have a Chinese restaurant?

    In their culinary travels, Lin Jie Kong and Jennifer Wong chronicled the families who run some of Australia’s most loved eateries – including one special restaurant in northern NSW
  • Prof Christopher Redman

    Christopher Redman obituary

  • Sarah Burton

    Kate’s wedding dress designer Sarah Burton named Givenchy creative chief

  • Emma Beddington

    All these health scares are making me ill. I need someone to tell me croissants are good for you

    Emma Beddington
  • Barry Levitt's dog, Anya

    The pet I’ll never forget: Anya, the big-hearted dog who taught me never to take life for granted

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Well Actually

  • mushrooms in red light

    The clinic for psychedelic difficulties: where people go when the trip never really ends

  • a side-by-side image of a teenage girl holding a skincare product and a farmer taking a sample of raw milk

    The biggest wellness trends of 2024 (so far)

    Do you need to take magnesium? Are you boysober? What’s underconsumption core? We’re here to help
  • An illustration of a person wearing a green shirt and jeans lying on a couch

    The invisible toll of life with polycystic ovary syndrome

    The overlooked emotional and psychological effects of PCOS are creating a silent mental health crisis
  • illustration with a green bottle with words 'feel free', a big eye, and silhouettes of people

    The wellness drink for sober people that some say they can’t stop drinking

  • a silhouetted mother sitting with her face down in her knees and her child looking at her in a hallway

    Parenting stress is a health issue – US surgeon general’s advisory report

  • A painted illustration of a lonely pink flamingo pool float washed up on the shore of a beach with pink sand, blue mountains, and a pink-and-blue speckled sky

    Summer is slipping away. Why am I panicking?

  • A hand holding a needle presses its tip into a full, orange balloon on a teal background.

    How bad is it to pop a pimple, really?

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Columns

  • illustration of woman shouting at toes

    Ask Ugly
    I hate my big, ugly feet. How can I come to terms with them?

  • illustration of woman holding two tubs of beauty product

    Halfway there: a column about midlife
    Menopause tests and anti-ageing face oils: welcome to midlife consumerism

  • illustration of a woman sitting at a table writing a letter

    Why am I like this?
    I want closure – but do I have a hope of ever getting it?

  • Illustration of a woman holding a scalpel to her face

    Ask Ugly
    My mother is pressuring me to get plastic surgery. How do I deal with imperfection?

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The toolkit

  • A sunscreen’s SPF, or sun protection factor, indicates how much protection a product offers.

    Sun season
    What is SPF and how much sunscreen do you really need? Experts answer

  • a person smokes cannabis

    California sober
    What does it mean and is it good for you?

  • Colourful flat lay view of different types of sliced fruits and vegetables on a pink background.

    The 30-plant challenge
    Experts say we need to eat 30 plants a week. This is how I fared

  • Black cup of coffee on the black and brown table among spilled roasted coffee beans.

    Coffee
    How much coffee is OK for me to drink in a day? I asked the experts

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Fashion

  • Tommy Hilfiger.

    Tommy Hilfiger revives nautical theme for show on old Staten Island ferry

    Preppy styles given modern update in collection unveiled at A-lister event featuring Anna Wintour fist-bumping Method Man
  • The cast of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice embraced a darker wardrobe for the film’s promotion.

    Brat summer to goth winter: Beetlejuice revival prompts sartorial spookiness

  • Bobby Brazier wears a double breasted jacquard blazer from Next

    Seeing double: the new season’s most useful suit jacket

  • Ralph Lauren goes classic for Hamptons show steeped in the American dream

  • The secret to looking effortlessly stylish? A little work and a few simple rules

  • TikTok has declared concealer is over. I’m not so sure

  • Fashion month: everything you need to know ahead of New York, London, Paris and Milan

  • Vivienne Westwood and skate brand Palace team up for capsule collection

  • ‘The new digital flex’: the airport tray trend stirring outrage and delight

Hometown tour

  • A man paddleboards with his dog with kayaks in the background.

    A local’s travel guide to Austin: what to eat, see and do in three days

  • Two men on either side of a bar.

    A local’s travel guide to New York City: what to eat, see and do in three days

  • A woman inspects inventory in a display unit in a furniture store.

    A local’s travel guide to Washington DC: what to eat, see and do in three days

  • The art deco district in Miami Beach, Florida.

    A local’s guide to Miami: What to eat, see and do in three days

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Food & drink

  • Rukmini Iyer’s wild mushroom orzotto.

    Rukmini Iyer’s quick and easy recipe for mushroom, spinach and hazelnut orzotto

  • Rachel Roddy's tomato crumble 1280

    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for tomato crumble

  • OM Nigel Mograbia Shallots

    Nigel Slater’s recipes for roast shallots with couscous, and lemon cakes

  • Meera Sodha's cabbage peanut butter and gochujang noodles.

    Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe for white cabbage, peanut butter and gochujang noodles

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Technology

  • A ranger hands a Starlink antenna taken from a roof to another waiting ranger

    ‘Can’t live without it’: alarm at Musk’s Starlink dominance in Brazil’s Amazon

  • Five runners passing under a bridge.

    Goodbye Tinder, hello Strava: have ‘hobby’ apps become the new social networks?

    Millions are rejecting the culture-war hotspots of the major social media sites in favour of apps dedicated to activities they enjoy, while bonding with their fellow users
  • Robot AI hand holding a quill on a green background

    ‘If journalism is going up in smoke, I might as well get high off the fumes’: confessions of a chatbot helper

    A data annotator reveals the threat his job poses to the art of real writing – and big tech’s growing concerns over AI’s limitations

    Advice

    • Happy, sad and neutral emoticons on instant print photographs<br>F2Y4NN Happy, sad and neutral emoticons on instant print photographs

      Ask Philippa
      Bad events knocked the joy out of my life. How do I get it back?

      Learn the difference between self-pity, which leads us to feel resentful and helpless, and self-compassion, which promotes resilience and self-awareness
    • Private Lives illo 7 Sept 2020

      Private lives
      My teenage son shows no interest in school

      I’ve tried being as encouraging as possible, but nothing seems to work. And now I’m worried his younger siblings will follow in his footsteps

    The big picture

    • PR images- composite

      Put a prep in your step: what to wear for that back-to-school feeling

      Even if school is a distant memory, use your wardrobe to harness a bit of that best-foot-forward energy as we enter autumn
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