The unspoken rules of dating went out the window as people found themselves deeply alone – perhaps it’s no surprise these couples didn’t make itOn 4 July 2020, 34-year-old Samantha Higdon, a tech worker in Austin, Texas, was swiping through the dating …
How we met: ‘As the borders closed, I got the last seat on the last plane out, to be with her’
Damoon, 32, and Mengzhu, 33, met online at the end of 2019. They had a long distance relationship during lockdown, before moving in together at the end of 2020In 2019, Damoon was teaching at a school in Coonamble, a town in rural New South Wales. He wa…
Rhik Samadder tries … cocktail making: ‘I make a naked and famous – and feel stirred, not shaken’
I’m not sure I’ll ever look cool behind a bar, but can I learn how to mix a killer cocktail?How does Stanley Tucci look so cool making cocktails? I can’t throw a lemon barley together without burning the house down, though it’s a skill I long to acquir…
Gone missing: the groom’s wedding suit
No sign of the Moss Bros suit weeks before the wedding and TNT goes backwards on delivery datesI am getting married at the end of this month. In the middle of August, my best man and I visited the Moss Bros store on Oxford Street to hire our wedding su…
British ‘baby shortage’ could lead to economic decline, says thinktank
Social Market Foundation suggests measures including better childcare provision to increase birthrate Britain is facing a “baby shortage” that could lead to “long-term economic stagnation”, a thinktank has said.The Social Market Foundation (SMF) said t…
Roland Mouret and Rejina Pyo defy convention at London fashion week
With diving models and female-directed Greek odysseys, this years event felt anything but ordinaryLondon fashion week is back, but not back to normal.Roland Mouret, whose regular pre-pandemic fashion week turn was a catwalk show at the National Theatre…
The weekend’s best photos: London fashion, KyivPride and a skinny dip
The Guardian’s picture editors select photo highlights from around the world Continue reading…
Ding dong, Avon now calling with ‘omni-channel’ cosmetic sales in a digital age
Spurred on by the Covid pandemic, the traditional doorstep retailer is training its ‘reps’ in new techniquesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAvon may soon be calling you into shops and live-streamed shopping events as well as…
Readers reply: why do humans cry when they are sad?
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical conceptsI understand that tears flush away foreign objects from the eye. But what advant…
In at the deep end: the activists plunging into the wild swimming campaign
Despite the huge boom in wild swimming, most of England’s rivers and reservoirs are still out of bounds. Now lobbyists are diving into the debate…One Saturday morning in April this year a group of swimmers assembled on the bank of Kinder Reservoir in D…