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First day at school
(3 minute read) Marie McCoy describes the triumph and trauma experienced by parents as children take their first step on the educational ladder.
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Love, sex and life choices
(5 minute read) Edmund Adamus finds attitudes towards sex may be changing among the young.
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The ‘little joys’ challenge
(6 minute read) Clare Campbell suggests eight simple tips for making life brighter and better.
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When fasting from Instagram is harder than giving up meat on Fridays …
(3 minute read) Nicole Law’s offers a very 21st century take on Lent.
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From booze to belief …
(6 minute read) Ben Thompson says more people are asking the ‘Big Questions’ beyond the bottle.
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Pushing the brake pedal
(7 minute read) Francesca Omon argues that spiritual values are just as essential as green policies to save the planet.
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Suffocating in the echo chambers of modern life
(7 minute read) Zoë Dukoff-Gordon exposes the invisible walls we build around our minds without realising it … and offers a surprising way to escape.
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What would Poirot do?
(6 minute read) Kenson Li learns lessons for lockdown from the great fictional sleuth.
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Success: are we there yet?
(9 minute read) Lisa Fraser argues that success is always a journey and never a final destination. And we are more successful, the more we share our success.
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Editorial: Don’t just survive, thrive!
There was a time when survival writing was a rather niche market. If you looked really hard, or asked the bored assistant, bookshops tended to stock a light range of boy scout-esque manuals on what to carry as emergency rations, the joys of Kendal Mint Cake and how to light a fire with sticks. More recently (before the lockdown, of course), if you mentioned the term “survival writing”, you would have found yourself conducted to the shelves containing another genre … generally filed under “self help”, the survival in this case being of a different order: how to survive a divorce, how to survive a bereavement, how to survive redundancy…
