Will, 25, medical student, meets Kate, 26, PhD studentWill on KateWhat were you hoping for?A fun evening with someone who didn’t take themselves too seriously and a good story to share with my friends. Continue reading…
Tim Dowling: A trip to the theatre is on the cards. To go or not to go?
I’ve been on a plane and shaken people’s hands but as restrictions lift, I still haven’t been to a pub or to a live show I am sitting in front of my computer when my wife rings me from a train platform.“Busy?” she says. Continue reading…
A shopping guide to the best … winter cardigans
With Taylor Swift singing about them, these cosy staples are enjoying a renaissanceOnce seen as dowdy, the cardigan is enjoying a renaissance, with Taylor Swift even penning a song about the knitwear favourite last year.There’s a huge array to consider…
How we met: ‘He was the most handsome man I’d ever seen’
Amir, 33, and Amy, 42, met when he helped her move house in 2020 – a language barrier meant they began their relationship through Google Translate. Now married, they live together with their two cats in GeorgiaIn February 2020, Amy had plans to go on h…
I got a camera to spy on my cat – and it made me question everything about myself
We document everything obsessively. And implicit in this compulsion is the suspicion that our lives are best understood at a distance – but what do we lose?This summer I bought two in-home security cameras. I told people I got them because my cat was s…
Emotional infidelity: the devastating, destructive love affairs that involve no sex at all
An affair doesn’t have to be physical to be intense – or to ruin a relationship. Guardian readers open up about bonding, betrayal and what happened nextChloe had encouraged her husband to accept the new job. “I told him: ‘Life is too short to be unhapp…
Being an only child made me fascinated by siblings – and means I’ve had to learn to share my life
My debut novel is full of the brothers and sisters who were absent though my childhoodPeople often ask me about my brothers and sisters. They have read my debut novel, Girl A, and they expect to find my own family, encrypted in the fiction. There are s…
Juliet Stevenson: ‘The perception of women of my age is so reductive’
The actor, 65, on growing up in a loving family, recognising her partner, and getting more interesting while the parts she is offered get less interestingMy earliest memory is jumping off a little stone wall in the garden in Australia. I called it my j…
Jamie Laing on privilege and panic attacks: ‘I’d tell my younger self: don’t change’
The TV personality and Made in Chelsea star recreates a childhood photo and reflects on what he’s learnedBorn in Oxfordshire in 1988, Jamie Laing is best known for his role as chief mischief-maker on Made in Chelsea, the structured reality series he le…
Original Observer Photography
A succession of actors, environmental activists and some live music – the best photographs commissioned by the Observer in October 2021 Continue reading…