“Breaking up is never easy …” goes the Abba song my dad loves, and breaking up during a pandemic is a special kind of hard. In January I broke up…
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I’m so desperate to meet people I’ll work on a bank holiday. Luckily, my family won’t miss me
In the past year, I’ve only done one face-to-face interview. It was magical. We sat outside a curry house, acting all professional, like two strangers exchanging important information. But the…
Iguanas with chips: Florida seeks solution to invasive reptile problem
From Key West’s high-summer Hemingway Days, in which bearded hopefuls vie for the title of best Papa lookalike, to the annual hunt for the elusive (and imaginary) skunk ape, Florida…
‘It’s like therapy’: how washing your hair can lift your mood – and change your life
Anya Hindmarch launched her first company as a teenager. At 53, she is an award-winning fashion designer with five children, a successful business and a CBE. One of those types.…
Lucky review – spirited Ghanaian romcom captures the social media age
Here is a vibrant, idiosyncratic portrait of Ghanaian youth, bursting with wisecracks and a boyish restlessness. There is an amateurish shakiness to the visuals, but the film overcomes this with…
‘A David and Goliath battle’: how Superstore became TV’s most subversive workplace comedy
In a time where many of us have been siloed at home, cut off from the trivial and often annoying interactions of the workplace, there was a strange comfort in…
New 150-mile Cornish cycle route to open in the autumn
A new Cornish cycling route that takes in some of the UK’s most spectacular coastal scenery as well as atmospheric old industrial works and bronze age monuments is due to…