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  • Woman kissing a man on cheek in night club

    Gen Z yearns for the pre-digital dating era – but don’t ask them out in person

  • Close-up of two Victorian stamps with heavy franking on them on an envelope, one. a red penny stamp and the other a red-orange fourpenny stamp

    In for a Penny Red … UK’s ‘most valuable’ stamp goes up for sale at £650,000

    Rare, flawed version of Victorian stamp is one of a batch destroyed in the 1860s for being defective
  • A large knife embedded in a melon, with juice flowing from the cut.

    The best kitchen knives for every job – chosen by chefs

    Sixteen of the UK’s finest cooks and restaurateurs choose the kitchen blades that really cut it, from premium Japanese santokus to small, serrated dependables
  • Stuart Heritage

    ‘I don’t think I have that in me’: what was Lena Dunham’s abandoned Polly Pocket movie actually going to involve?

    Stuart Heritage
  • ‘A generation was completely wiped out’ … Gaynor Madgwick above Aberfan.

    A noise like thunder – then my classroom went black. How I lost my brother, sister and stability to the Aberfan disaster

  • Night fever … Lee Sun-kyun and Jung Yu-mi in Sleep.

    Sleep review – marriage unravels in gleeful Korean somnambulist psycho-chiller

  • The impossibility of putting a number on happiness is quickly revealed … Agent of Happiness.

    Agent of Happiness review – Do you own a tractor? Bhutan surveyors attempt to analyse joy

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Well Actually

  • Small plastic parts and microplastics of varying colors in the sand of a beach surrounded by rocks

    Curb ‘stupid plastics’ and stop industry BS: urgent actions to prevent a plastic crisis

  • Illustration of a person lying on their back with a ball between their knees

    First my left knee, then my right: my middle-aged body’s betrayal

    I won’t ‘bounce back’ from my injuries. But it is a privilege to live – to walk, dance and even fall – in an ageing body
  • A pen lies beside a notepad on which is written: 'Don't date a bartender'

    The memo: could one missed message have saved me a lifetime of regret?

    It is the one essential piece of advice you wish you had known when you were younger. I started asking women for their memos – and the results were revealing
  • Experts agree that the microbiome is important to human health. But many are skeptical about how useful these kits are.'

    Are at-home gut microbiome testing kits a scam?

  • A white woman with long brown hair and a button-up blue shirt with no pants sits on the edge of a bed, while a white man wearing jeans with no shirt lies with his back to her.

    Feel sad, anxious or ‘homesick’ after sex? You might have post-coital dysphoria

  • illustration of person wearing blue top sits at green chair and looks to the left

    Why do I feel like I’m stuck in a ‘waiting room’, hoping for my life to get started?

  • Two young women standing with guitars.

    ‘She is my soulmate. I’d do anything for her’: readers on their best friends

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Columns

  • A graphic illustration in sepia tones of a light-skinned woman with long, dark hair, kneeling in a sexually suggestive manner wearing a bathing suit.

    Ask Ugly
    The state of the bush – how should I be styling my pubic hair?

  • Graphic illustration of naked woman with one pant leg on, in shades of red, peach, light blue and olive.

    Halfway there: a column about midlife
    No sex drive and a ‘tanking libido’: how I redefined intimacy in midlife

  • illustration of a woman holding a tablet with posts in the air around her saying things like 'ur cancelled'

    Why am I like this?
    Everyone’s so intolerant online. Am I right to stay silent?

  • ‘Take a fraction of what you’d spend on Le Labo Rose 31 and buy yourself a bouquet; meditate on your own impermanence as it wilts.’

    Ask Ugly
    Signature scents are deeply appealing – but how else can I express ‘the self’?

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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

  • People standing in a room with a large image of a model in a white dress on the wall

    Immersive Vogue show lifts curtain on catwalks past and present

    Exhibition at London venue Lightroom explores inner workings of runway shows since early 20th century
  • Models wearing bermuda shorts on the catwalk

    Bermuda moods: summer’s chicest shorts are knee length

  • Saturday magazine JULY 6 Accessories feature DSC3902 - NEW ADDITION FOR ONLINE Photographer: David Newby Styling: Melanie Wilkinson Hair and make up: Sam Cooper at Carol Hayes Management using Living Proof and Lancôme Model: Amelia Swaby at Milk Hat, £57, Mother Denim Dress, £35, Rokit Earrings, €100, Crystal Haze Pink bead necklace, £128, Monica Vinader Evil eye torque, €150 and purple bear necklace, €250 both Crystal Haze Fish necklace, £17.99, Zara Coral bangle, £22.99, Zara Green bracelet, £178, Monica Vinader Star bag, £49.99, Zara Sandals, £159, Penelope Chilvers Woven bag, £190, Essentiel Antwerp Yellow sunglasses, £120, Bonnie Clyde

    The key to making your old faithful summer dress work in 2024? It’s all about accessories

  • From super-sized sunnies to beach-ready bags: 51 accessories to make your summer sizzle

  • Biker style: motocross jackets revving up summer this year

  • Goodbye Savile-Row Sunak: Keir and Victoria Starmer bring more relaxed fashion to No 10

  • Flying abroad? These are the last travel-size minis you’ll ever need to buy

  • Starmer on your soles and Thatcher on your teacup: we vote for the best, worst and weirdest election merch

  • ‘Surely we are smarter than mowing down 1,000-year-old trees to make T-shirts’ – the complex rise of viscose

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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

  • Felicity Cloake's macarons.

    How to make chocolate macarons – recipe

  • Claude Bosi’s classic French recipes For Bastille Day.

    Wine-poached eggs, lemony sole and puffed potatoes: Claude Bosi’s classic French recipes for Bastille Day

  • Mark Bittman’s balsamic strawberries with rocket.

    How to make the most of a punnet of strawberries

  • Summer roasties: mixed vegetables with a blue-cheese dressing.

    Nigel Slater’s recipe for roast summer vegetables and blue cheese sauce

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Technology

  • Cancer experts have warned that AI’s value and potential in healthcare has been overstated to a dangerous degree.

    TechScape: Can AI really help fix a healthcare system in crisis?

  • Professor Dali Kaafar, Professor and Executive Director of the Cyber Security Hub, School of Computing Future Communications Research Centre; Macquarie University. Photograph by Mike Bowers. Wednesday 3rd July 2024.

    Real criminals, fake victims: how chatbots are being deployed in the global fight against phone scammers

    New scambaiting AI technology Apate aims to keep scammers on the line while collecting data that could help disrupt their business model
  • From left, Mark Graham, Callum Cant and James Muldoon

    James Muldoon, Mark Graham and Callum Cant: ‘AI feeds off the work of human beings’

    The Fairwork trio talk about their new book on the ‘extraction machine’, exposing the repetitive labour, often in terrible conditions, that big tech is using to create artificial intelligence

    Advice

    • Close-up Of A Man Holding Empty Pocket With His Hand<br>KC65W5 Close-up Of A Man Holding Empty Pocket With His Hand

      Ask Philippa
      I’m a failure and in debt. And now my partner is pregnant

      See yourself as part of something bigger, both in your relationship and at work. Come clean with your partner about your debt and throw yourself into your job
    • 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

    • Model standing on an cooler holding a cooler above head

      The edit: 20 of the best swim shorts – in pictures

      Upgrade your beachwear and head for the shore in a stylish new pair
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