Skip to main contentSkip to navigation

Support the Guardian

Fund independent journalism with $5 per month
Support us
Support us
Print subscriptions
Newsletters
Sign in

Lifestyle

  • ‘I was running projects on the ground in Iraq but there was another side to me I kept hidden: I loved comedy.'

    Self and wellbeing
    The death of my friend inspired me to follow my standup dreams

    For one writer, tragedy led to comedy, the sudden loss of a colleague giving her the nudge she needed
  • Hands of an older person and a younger one

    Ask Philippa
    My much older lover keeps reaching out, then pushing me away

    Words of love are great – but without behaviour to follow them up they are meaningless
  • Artificial intelligence generated images of models

    Artificial intelligence
    Calling all fashion models … now AI is coming for you

    As fashion brands create AI ‘twins’ with models’ permission, some believe this is just another form of exploitation
  • Girl Working on Laptop with Smartsheet

    From deadlines to budgets, project management skills have become vital for everyone – here’s how to make it all easier

    Smartsheet can help project managers stay on track by automating workflows and aiding collaboration – all without the need for expert training
    Paid for by
    This content was paid for by Smartsheet and produced by the Guardian Labs team.Smartsheet
    • The cat aggression<br>Aggressive domestic cat sitting on a window sill

      Cats
      ‘She treats everyone with a deep growl’: can you train an angry cat to be more sociable?

    • A man and a woman take in some contemporary art in a bright, modern gallery

      Notes and queries
      Readers reply: Why are you expected to be quiet in an art gallery?

    • Buying a stamp for a young man inspired Russell to do at least one kind thing for a stranger every day.

      Health & wellbeing
      Rewind and be kind: what happens if you do one act of kindness every day?

    • ‘I even placed an outdoor bathtub and shower on the terrace, so I never lose the feeling of being outside’: Marcantonio.

      Interiors
      Take the roof off: outside meets inside in a radically artistic Italian home

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

The Filter

  • Leon Edler

    The best Mother’s Day gifts: 68 thoughtful ideas for £50 and under they’ll love

  • Young man packing suitcase in his bedroom

    Always roll your clothes! 13 travel packing hacks to save you space and money – according to seasoned travellers

  • tins of coconut milk

    ‘Reminds me of sun cream’: the best (and worst) supermarket coconut milk, tasted and rated

  • A composite image of three cordless vacuum cleaners against a grid-like red, pink and orange background.

    The best cordless vacuum cleaners for a spotless home: 10 tried and tested favourites

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

Fashion

  • Piper, an aspiring buddhist played by Sarah Catherine Hook, reads The Lonely City by Olivia Laing.

    Reading between the lines
    What can we decipher from White Lotus characters’ book choices?

  • Two people sort through piles of discarded clothes in the Atacama desert

    Global development
    Calvin Klein jeans for free! Branded clothes dumped in the desert snapped up on anti-fast fashion website

  • Christian Bale, Reese Witherspoon, Anthony Lemke, Samantha Mathis and Matt Ross in American Psycho

    Boom boom culture
    Fashion’s flashy, sleazy and sudden vibe shift

  • PR images- composite

    What to wear to get the Montecito look (on a budget)

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

Join Grace Dent and celebrity guests for a new season of Comfort Eating, as she throws the cupboard doors open and chats life through food.

Food

  • ‘Recipes such as this one are very much a suggestion, rather than a blueprint that must be stuck to word for word.’

    Nigel Slater recipes
    Nigel's recipes for noodles with breadcrumbs, and panna cotta with passion fruit

    Spicy noodles and delicate dessert for these see-saw days
  • ‘Japanese restaurants have a special place in our family rituals’: the upstairs dining room at Shiki.

    Ed Balls eats out
    Shiki, Norwich: ‘Unexpectedly reasonable’ – restaurant review

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

Dishes you’ll come back to again and again and again

The Guardian’s Feast app has arrived. Think of it as a giant cookbook with over 5,000 recipes from our world-class cooks – only it fits in your pocket (handy for grabbing ingredients on the way home) and has loads of great features to take the stress (and boredom) out of cooking.

Start cooking for £2.99 per month and enjoy features such as cook mode, search by ingredient and save for later.

Find out more
Download the Feast app today
Download the Feast app

Health & wellbeing

  • The back of a man in a shadowy image with his head in his hands

    My partner doesn’t know I take Viagra – and I worry that one day it won’t work

  • Illustration of a woman putting pictures on a corkboard - some are skewered by darts

    Leave the hurt behind! How to let go of a grudge

    • Nell Frizzell

      I’ve got a new secret weapon against insomnia: a £20 strip of padded fabric

      Nell Frizzell
    • Composite illustration of a chimpanzee wearing a stethoscope, with leaves

      Paging Dr Chimp: the medical secrets we can learn from apes, birds and even butterflies

    • Emma Beddington

      It’s time to embrace Dugnadsånd – the Norwegian concept we all need right now

      Emma Beddington
Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.
Paid content
About

Paid content is paid for and controlled by an advertiser and produced by the Guardian Labs team.


Learn more about Guardian Labs content

Behind The Tryline With Vodafone

Guardian Labs
  • Female rugby players wearing The Good, The Scaz and The Rugby/Vodafone hoodies in a huddle

    From menstrual tracking to mental health
    How a uni-based initiative is helping young women excel in rugby

  • Rachel Malcolm, Francesca McGhie, Elis Martin and Helen Nelson

    Stars of Scotland
    Joining the women’s rugby team as they prepare for a stellar year

  • Keira Bevan, Jaz Joyce, Kelsey Jones

    ‘We want that pressure’
    Why the Wales women’s rugby team is heading into an exciting new chapter

  • Gloucester Hartpury players Lucy Simpson and Kelsey Jones.

    ‘That girl will play for England’
    The 19-year-old being mentored for rugby stardom

Paid for by
Labs sponsor logo
The Guardian Newsletters logo

Relationships

  • Brandon and Christine.

    How we met
    How we met: ‘We’re like two pieces of a puzzle clicking together’

  • Hands of an older person and a younger one

    Ask Philippa
    My much older lover keeps reaching out, then pushing me away

  • The back of a man in a shadowy image with his head in his hands

    Sexual healing
    My partner doesn’t know I take Viagra – and I worry that one day it won’t work

  • Concerned friend-01

    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    My boss treats me like a lazy teenager. How can I set some boundaries?

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.
Weekend
Every Saturday, Weekend will bring you the best Guardian and Observer writing from the week, including celebrity interviews, lifestyle features and opinion.

Listen on:

The Guardian Spotify Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Acast

Travel

  • All aboard: Barceló Málaga.

    Rail travel
    Just the ticket: Europe’s 10 best train station hotels for a first-class stay

    Travelling by rail? Treat yourself to a proper arrival at these extra-special hotels, just minutes from the platform
  • Almond tree<br>Mountains of Asturias in the north of Spain in a sunny day

    Spain
    Where cider houses rule in Spain: a tour of Asturias

  • Sunset on Lake Sevan, view of the Sevanavank Monastery, Armenia’s famous heritage

    Armenia
    Walking up an appetite in Armenia’s Caucasus mountains

  • The popular Pita &amp; Burek prepared in the Bosna buregdzinica in the old city of Sarajevo.<br>DC9XFA The popular Pita &amp; Burek prepared in the Bosna buregdzinica in the old city of Sarajevo.

    Readers' tips
    ‘All around us was the low hum of contented diners’: your favourite places to eat in Europe

  • A black and white photo-style mural of Richard Burton on the side of a three-storey building

    Wales
    ‘A beloved figure’: Welsh village ready for tourists as Richard Burton biopic opens

  • looking up at a stained glass window inside Carlisle Cathedral, one of the town’s major attractions.

    UK
    Where tourists seldom tread, part 16: a trio of small historic cities

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

Money

  • Two Ryanair jets at an airport

    Consumer rights
    My disabled mother was left stranded at Hamburg airport

    How could airport and airline staff miss an elderly woman with hearing problems in a wheelchair, left sitting there after the gate emptied?
  • A large propane tank against a red brick wall

    Consumer champions
    Ofgem’s energy price cap doesn’t cover our LPG supply

  • Scrapyard with scrap vehicles

    Consumer champions
    I tried to sell my car but was told it had been written off

  • Consumer rights
    Teachers’ Pensions used to check if I was alive. Now it seems to assume I’m dead

  • Consumer affairs
    My late husband’s care home owes me £10,000 and won’t pay

  • Consumer affairs
    Strangers had sex in our Premier Inn hotel room while we were out

  • Mobile phones
    Mobile top-up firm dragging its feet over fully refunding my mum £1,900

  • BBC licence fee
    TV Licensing sent a legal warning after I logged on to iPlayer at a friend’s house

  • Your problems, with Anna Tims
    UK energy firms – another twisting psychodrama in three acts

Puzzles

  • A civet, for those who prefer a different kind of MUSK

    Crossword blog
    What is the best way to write a crossword clue describing Elon Musk?

  • Cryptic crosswords
    Cryptic crossword No 29,656

    • Quick crosswords
      Quick crossword No 17,129

    • Sudoku
      Sudoku 6,845 easy

    • Prize crosswords
      Prize crossword No 29,655

    • Killer sudoku
      Observer killer sudoku

    • Thomas Eaton
      What links Hound Tor, Wharram Percy and Gainsthorpe? The Saturday quiz

    • Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
      Did you solve it? Here’s (not) looking at Euclid

Play the Guardian's daily word game and share your score with your friends

Play Wordiply" Play
Wordiply composition

You may have missed

  • Composite illustration: a man preparing to go for an ocean swim with colourful illustrative lines around him.

    Kindness of strangers: my husband was stung by a stingray, then the whole beach stepped up

  • A droplet-studded driver-side car window

    Why don’t the side doors of cars have wipers on the windows?

    The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts
  • ‘I understood the romance in the impulse to make things cinematic, rather than just sad’: Anna Beecher.

    ‘Alcohol became a second self to blame for my desire’: how drinking fuelled my experiences of sex

    Since her teens, Anna Beecher used drinking as a gateway to sexual encounters, a mask for both her vulnerability and accountability. It took falling for someone in the sober light of day to realise what love was
Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

The big picture

  • A seagull flys in front of the moon during the A-League Men Round 22 match between Melbourne Victory and the Central Coast Mariners at AAMI Park in Melbourne, Victoria, Saturday, March 8, 2025. (AAP Image/James Ross) NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLY

    Australia’s best photos of the month – March 2025

    Cyclone Alfred drives wild seas, a seagull eclipses the moon, and our Kylie performs on a trapeze: Guardian Australia looks at some of the month’s best images
Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

Most viewed