Society
What going blind taught me about humanity
What I learned from going blind
The rise of the groupthink podcast
A long tradition in the Liddle household on a Saturday morning is to read aloud sections from the Guardian Weekend…
Could I find a girlfriend on a Guardian Blind Date?
Was a Guardian Blind Date the answer?
I’m a slave to my horse-chestnut tree
Trying to work in my garden shed at this time of year is tricky. I will be crouched over my…
Portrait of the week
Home Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister, proposed reaching net zero in 2050 ‘in a better, more proportionate way’ such as by…
Shoplifters need to feel shame
This is my brother’s story and, like many telling stories, it’s small. Tim lives in Iowa, as our mother’s family…
Letters
Whose victory? Sir: Politicians are often accused of engaging in doublespeak, and I fear in the case of Boris Johnson’s…
Dear Mary
Q. Scrolling through my WhatsApp contacts, I have found a name I don’t recognise but when I click on the…
What a full English breakfast can tell us about the state of the NHS
Among devotees of the full English breakfast, few things polarise more than the inclusion of baked beans. Some people are…
Biddy Baxter and the perils of remembering the past
I’ve been reading the cracking, crackling new biography Biddy Baxter: The Woman Who Made Blue Peter by Richard Marson (he’s a friend,…
Why Britain needs more marriage
Hungary is something of a bête noire in the international community. Viktor Orban and his government have had much-deserved condemnation…
Why your more successful friends will drop you
How success kills friendships
The toxic cult of the superhero
Why this mad insistence that everyone has special powers?
Beware the sex party bores
You know you’re getting old when your friends start going to sex parties. In our twenties, there were parties, and…
Parenting matters. It's about time we were brave enough to say so
The Duchess of Cambridge has been out and about hosting roundtables with very important people, discussing what can be done…
Why the Bible still matters
If you look to our schools and universities, you will not see a serious engagement with the Bible as part…
Not all masculinity is ‘toxic’
Anyone who has passed through an education in thepast decade will have encountered the term ‘toxic masculinity’. It is one…
The close friend I never really knew
I have just read an extraordinary new book. It’s by a close and old pal whom I’d count as one…
The cult of sensitivity
I was extra pleased to have swerved the modern curse that is Wordle when I read that ‘sensitive’ words have…
