Life and style
A porter’s guide to suitcases: ‘Expensive, brand-name luggage? One question – why?’
After 20 years working as a resort and hotel porter in Australia, the UK and Canada, Raymond Thew has seen all kinds of bags
Raymond Thew
31, Jan, 2024 @2:00 PM
I pick up my phone 111 times a day – it doesn’t matter how much time we spend on it | Blake Montgomery
The measure of whether you are living a good life is up to you – and not determined by your daily screen time total, writes Guardian US’s tech editor
Blake Montgomery
31, Jan, 2024 @11:00 AM
Rate of US babies born prematurely has grown 12%, analysis says
Report adds to evidence of a maternal and infant health crisis, which experts expect will be exacerbated by abortion bans
Jessica Glenza in New York
31, Jan, 2024 @10:00 AM
I was an addict, a prisoner, a sex worker. I thought the world had written me off – but I saved myself
For two decades Mandy Ogunmokun was either in jail or selling sex to pay for drugs. She had four children – but never got the chance to raise them. Now clean, she has devoted her life to helping other struggling women
Ammar Kalia
31, Jan, 2024 @10:00 AM
A moment that changed me: outraged at the glass ceiling, I became a gold-medal-winning athlete
As a disabled woman, I knew I would face barriers. I pushed through them – all the way to the Commonwealth Games and Paralympics
Danielle Brown
31, Jan, 2024 @7:00 AM
‘Fresh, punchy, full of citrus and herbs’: how to cook and eat like you’re on a yoga retreat
Restaurateur Darren Robertson of Three Blue Ducks shares the catering brief his Byron Bay cafe gets for yogis and his recipe for herby miso eggplant
Sarah Ayoub with recipe by Darren Robertson
30, Jan, 2024 @2:00 PM
‘We just held hands and jumped!’ How one of Britain’s happiest, healthiest communes was built
It took 13 years of dreaming, peril and hard graft before the first residents moved into Cannock Mill – an eco-village that tackles both the climate crisis and loneliness
Anita Chaudhuri
30, Jan, 2024 @5:00 AM
Fasting for 36 hours: the experts’ view on Rishi Sunak’s weekly habit
PM consumes only water, tea or black coffee from 5pm on a Sunday to 5am on a Tuesday, which can have benefits for ageing and DNA repair
Nicola Davis Science correspondent
29, Jan, 2024 @2:39 PM
The free-range couch: why your sofa reveals more than you might think
Do you have the floor space to put your sofa well away from the wall? If so, according to TikTok, you epitomise ‘quiet luxury’
29, Jan, 2024 @1:25 PM
US surgeon general Vivek Murthy: ‘Loneliness is like hunger, a signal we’re lacking something for survival’
As the 19th and 21st surgeon general, Murthy has described loneliness as an epidemic on par with tobacco use – the antidote, he says, is human connection
Katherine Rowland
29, Jan, 2024 @1:00 PM
Tell us about your understated romantic gestures
We want to hear about the small, everyday ways you show affection to your partner
Guardian community team
29, Jan, 2024 @12:05 PM
The pet I’ll never forget: Charlotte, the goldfish who rose from the dead
Survivor, movie star, brilliant student: this was a fish who never ceased to surprise. She made me believe in magic
Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff
29, Jan, 2024 @11:00 AM
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