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A modern pilgrimage’s transformative power | Letters
Letters: Norma Neill and Judith A Daniels respond to a Guardian leader on the long path to enlightenment

18, Apr, 2024 @5:06 PM

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Shock of the old: 11 transport fantasies that never got off the ground – from jetpacks to swan-powered paragliders
From Leonardo da Vinci to the engineers of Bell Aerosystems, some of our finest minds have devoted themselves to finding a better form of travel. Still, anyone can have an off day …

Emma Beddington, picture selection by Sarah Gilbert

18, Apr, 2024 @3:38 PM

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My close friend is a therapist but all she does is complain. Should I exit this relationship? | Leading questions
There may be ways to protect yourself from her negativity without jettisoning the relationship, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. Start by creating boundaries

Eleanor Gordon-Smith

18, Apr, 2024 @3:00 PM

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Dining across the divide: ‘I couldn’t get on board with her equating the Taliban and the democratic government of Ukraine’
They both vote Labour and listen to The Rest Is Politics, but will they agree on the royal family or arming Ukraine?

Sam Wollaston

18, Apr, 2024 @11:30 AM

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How we met: ‘It felt like chatting with an old friend rather than meeting for the first time’
Steve, 65, and Lisa, 67, met in the mid-90s on an early online messaging system while on opposite sides of the Atlantic. They now live together near Cambridge

Lizzie Cernik

18, Apr, 2024 @10:57 AM

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Parliamentary punch-ups, painting mishaps and red carpet insults – take the Thursday quiz
Questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?

Martin Belam

18, Apr, 2024 @10:00 AM

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My first time at an archery class: ‘There’s so much tension it’s like a romantic comedy’
In her fortnightly review of fitness and wellbeing activities, comedian Jennifer Wong finds that to succeed in life and archery, it helps to aim lower

Jennifer Wong

17, Apr, 2024 @3:00 PM

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A moment that changed me: I was paralysed on a climb. Then I made the 100-mile journey back to myself
Seven years after a terrible fall, I teamed up with two other disabled sportsmen to scale Iceland’s highest peak. With each drive of my poles into the snow, I came closer to the man I’d once been

Darren Edwards

17, Apr, 2024 @6:00 AM

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I used to love sex. But my boyfriend’s premature ejaculation is turning me off it – and him
We’ve been together for five years, but I’m losing interest. And he won’t talk about it

Pamela Stephenson Connolly

16, Apr, 2024 @3:12 PM

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The Titanic drug poisoning: is one of the greatest mysteries in film history about to be solved?
While filming the epic movie, 80 people – including James Cameron and Bill Paxton – were hospitalised after their food was spiked with PCP. Who was behind the psychedelic clam chowder?

16, Apr, 2024 @12:39 PM

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At 50, I had a flashback to a priest abusing me as a child. Then I decided to confront him
Mary Dispenza spent years as a nun and working in the church before her buried memories rose to the surface. It was the start of her long journey towards justice and peace

Anna Moore

16, Apr, 2024 @4:00 AM

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Heartbreak Hill to the Great Ocean Road: six of Australia’s best marathons and fun runs
Weekend Runner Australia author Emma Kemp runs you through some of the country’s best long-distance races, taking in city pavements, tropical islands, red dirt and windswept coastlines

Emma Kemp

15, Apr, 2024 @10:00 PM

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