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  • Watercolour illustration of a sun in yellow and orange, with flame-like rays

    What colour is the sun and what makes things glow in the dark? The kids’ quiz

    Five multiple-choice questions – set by children – to test your knowledge, and a chance to submit your own junior brainteasers for future quizzes ​
  • An illustration with patches of grass and red roses around a side profile cutout photograph of Tim Dowling, with a background of different coloured circles and pen strokes

    Tim Dowling: I’m all at sea … on a reservoir near Heathrow airport

  • Three flying duck ornaments against a wallpapered wall, the front one carrying a union jack flag in its beak

    ‘I feel like I’m losing her’: the families torn apart by older relatives going far right

  • A snail on a zebra crossing

    Slowly does it: how to be patient in a world that wants everything right now

  • Speech bubble showing four-out-of-five heart rating on pink background

    Despite their bad reputation, parenting group chats are – for some – the village that never sleeps

  • A father fist bumps a baby

    double quotation markNew dads like me want to do fatherhood differently. Where’s our support?

    Zac Seidler
    When I’m seen changing a nappy, surprise on people’s faces tells me the bar isn’t just set low – in many contexts it doesn’t exist
  • Arwa Mahdawi

    double quotation markWhy aren’t Republicans thrilled by the fall in teen pregnancies?

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

    double quotation markAm I a happier person for having a child? It’s the wrong question to ask

    Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
  • Frances Ryan

    double quotation markBritain’s shadow workforce is paid as little as 65p an hour. Who cares for the carers?

    Frances Ryan
  • Polly Hudson

    double quotation markWhy was Denise Welch so furious about her son’s bins? That’s what being a parent does to you

    Polly Hudson

Advice

  • An illustration of a man and a woman facing away from each other with their arms crossed

    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    I’ve spent 20 years treading water and fear that I’ve wasted so much time. Am I depressed?

  • Illustration of a woman turning away from a man in bed

    Sexual healing
    Threesomes, rough towels and ‘lesbian bed death’: 23 of the best Sexual Healing columns

  • Close detail of UK gas bill from British Gas

    Consumer champions
    British Gas sent me a £571 bill for a flat I’ve never owned or lived in

  • Two tiara-wearing women embrace as they read a letter

    Leading questions
    My friend keeps sending me unsettling social media videos. How do I tell her to stop?

Love & sex

  • A man and a woman posing for a selfie at a restaurant table

    The moment I knew: Our knees touched and we froze – it was cinematic

    Tomas Telegramma had a platonic chemistry with his colleague Steph Vigilante. But one night as the heaven’s opened, so did his emotional floodgates
  • A composite of two white women with glasses and dark hair, one with colourful knitwear, the other clasping her hands together

    Blind date: ‘We laughed so hard the man at the next table shushed us’

  • French author and art critic Catherine Millet, author of The Sexual Life of Catherine M.

    Let’s talk about sex in a world of porn

  • Illustration showing shopping carts as glasses filled with groceries on person's face

    You be the judge: should my girlfriend change the way she bags her supermarket shopping?

  • A man and woman smile at the camera as they wrap their arms around each other.

    Placeholder partners: are you ‘the one’ – or just being used as a stopgap?

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