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As an agony aunt, I know the biggest cause of unhappiness: other people. Here’s the secret to better relationships
From my many years as a therapist and advice columnist, I’ve started to see clear patterns in the problems that bother my readers the most. And I can confirm that Sartre was right: hell is other people. It’s difficult relationships with those around us that cause the most anguish. It’s …
Stand up and be counted: six ways to protest that will make your voice heard
three climate activists were arrested
forthrowing soup over
Sunflowers
by Vincent van Gogh at the National Gallery. The Just Stop Oil protest landed on the national front pages. But will the action help further the activists’ cause to end …Wednesday briefing: What a Gaza ceasefire might look like
Plantwatch: A squirting cucumber is nature’s slimy explosive missile
The squirting cucumber (
Ecballium elaterium
) is a phenomenal ballistic missile, unique in the plant world. The tubby little fruit looks somewhat like a pickled cucumber hanging on a stalk and when ripe itsuddenly explodes
, shooting off into the air like a rocket and squirting out its seeds …British novelists criticise government over AI ‘theft’
Bestselling novelists Kate Mosse and Richard Osman have hit back at the government’s apparent plan to give artificial intelligence companies broad freedoms to mine artistic works for data, warning it could “destroy” growth in creative fields and amount to “theft”.
They spoke out after the prime minister, Keir Starmer, on …
Wellcome Trust charity criticised over £11m in payouts to investment team
The Wellcome Trust, the UK health research charity
, has been criticised for paying its investment executives more than £11m last year, more than 10 times as much as its own governors.The pay packets, which included £5m for Wellcome’s chief investment officer, Nick Moakes, were awarded after …
Intoxicated ‘nervous flyer’ caused New York flight to divert to Dublin
A “nervous flyer” whose unruly behaviour caused his transatlantic flight to be diverted to Dublin has been handed a two-month suspended sentence.
Dublin district court heard that the 34-year-old American had mixed the tranquiliser Xanax with alcohol to combat his anxiety before becoming disruptive on the United Airlines flight on …
‘It allowed me to be more myself’: how becoming a clown can be therapeutic
Without clowning, Olly Mead would never have had the courage to become a politician; Issy Millsop wouldn’t have swapped her career for something that paid less but was more fulfilling; and Lucy Heard wouldn’t have learned to “appreciate silliness, being stupid and playful, and the freedom that gives me”.
Therapeutic …
Tuesday briefing: What Ukraine might gain from two North Korean captives
Civilian casualties of explosive weapons at highest level in more than a decade
Civilian casualties from bombing or other explosive violence have reached their highest level globally in more than a decade, an annual study has concluded, reflecting the intense bombing of
andLebanon
and the ongoing war in Ukraine. (AOAV), …