Ageing

Who was first in to bat on walking cricket? | Letters

Letters: The origins of the game are contested by reader Andy Wood

28, Mar, 2023 @5:08 PM

Life online is a choking, oppressive smog. Teenagers need a place they can breathe | Emma Beddington

A new study shows more than half of teens spend their free time in their bedroom. But we are offering them nothing away from their screens, writes Emma Beddington

Emma Beddington

26, Mar, 2023 @1:00 PM

‘We want to wear what we want, but don’t want to get it wrong’ – how to decode fashion in your 50s

What exactly is ‘ageless’ dressing? Is it self-hating to worry about the size of my bum in jeans? Viv Groskop (nearly 50) navigates the daunting world of midlife fashion

Viv Groskop

24, Mar, 2023 @11:00 AM

A heartwarming tribute to priceless friendships | Letters

Letters: Readers on the longstanding friends who have keep them company through thick and thin

21, Mar, 2023 @5:42 PM

Here’s the quickest route to reforming the Met | Brief letters

Brief letters: Put women in charge | Nicola Sturgeon | Morning mishearing | Sausage slogan | Cargo bike alternative

21, Mar, 2023 @5:41 PM

Celebrating the comfort and joy that old friends bring | Letters

Letters: Readers on the friendships that have endured through the decades

19, Mar, 2023 @4:20 PM

Weathering by Arline Geronimus review – how discrimination makes you sick

A public health expert charts the cumulative effect of prejudice on peoples’ bodies, from heart disease to cancer

Farrah Jarral

17, Mar, 2023 @7:30 AM

‘I have a hunch I was left damaged’: what would a scan reveal about my brain?

Ever since he had encephalitis as a child, Simon Hattenstone worried that the disease might have caused long-term effects such as memory loss and depression. So, finally, he went for an MRI to find out

Simon Hattenstone

13, Mar, 2023 @1:00 PM

‘Exercise, avoid bangs and invent fairy stories’: Henry Marsh’s guide to keeping brains healthy

The neurosurgeon spent decades making people’s brains better, but a scan led him to focus on the factors that stave off cognitive decline and boost quality of life

Tim Jonze

11, Mar, 2023 @1:00 PM

What makes me happy now: gymnastics at midlife

A novelist’s childhood passion came back with a vengeance – there is nothing like the thrill of a new skill, that combination of speed, timing, muscles, guts

Rae Meadows

07, Mar, 2023 @9:00 AM

Most fortysomethings feel much younger than they really are. My mind insists I’m 400 | Emma Beddington

We all have a subjective age, as well as a chronological one. Months of insomnia have left me feeling like a barnacle-coated relic, writes Emma Beddington