The office is pretending to work, group chats have descended into tactical warfare, and somewhere a nation’s entire emotional wellbeing is balanced on a 22-year-old’s left foot. The World Cup has well and truly taken over. And what a tournament it’s turning out to be. We’re into the quarter-finals now, and the graveyard is stacked […]
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April 20–26, 2026 · Fiera Milano, Rho & citywide · 1,900+ exhibitors, 32 countries Once a year, Milan drops the act and admits what it quietly is the rest of the time: the design capital of the world. I have a real soft spot for this one. The 64th Salone del Mobile anchored a citywide
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There’s a particular kind of tired that sleep won’t touch. You know the one. You can clock a full eight hours, drink the alarming green thing, book the spa weekend you keep promising yourself — and still wake up with that faint, nagging sense that you’re somehow winning a race you never actually meant to
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Let me describe a holiday you may recognise. Five cities in seven days. A suitcase that never fully unpacks. A camera roll bulging with photos of landmarks you half-remember, taken mostly so you could prove you’d been. You come home more exhausted than when you left — and quietly, guiltily wonder whether you actually enjoyed
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Throughout 2025 · MENTAL HEALTH 2025 marked the moment mental health shifted from a topic people talked about to one they actively invested in — with a growing industry For years, the advice was the same, wasn’t it? Just talk about it. And it was good advice — genuinely. Breaking the silence around mental health
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Here’s a little test for you. Next time you’re in a room full of people, find the one who looks unmistakably, effortlessly expensive — and then try to spot a single logo on them. You won’t. No monogram. No swoosh. No giant name shouting across their chest like a sandwich board. Just a beautifully cut
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Fun fact to open with: you have two ages, not one. There’s the number on your birthday cards — fixed, non-negotiable, frankly a bit rude. And then there’s your biological age, which is what your cells are actually up to behind the scenes. The delightful part? Unlike your birthday, this second age is open to
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Not so long ago, telling someone your outfit was secondhand came with a tiny flinch — a little apology tucked into the sentence. In 2025, that flinch quietly vanished. Announcing you’d thrifted your coat stopped being a confession and became close to a “flex“. And the numbers behind that shift are genuinely eye-watering. Thrifting grew
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There’s a new chat-up line doing the rounds, and it isn’t “can I buy you a drink.” It’s “what’s your Strava?” Which tells you almost everything you need to know about how a generation decided to find its people in 2025. Not in the pub. On the pavement, at 7 am, in trainers. The running
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We started talking about these drugs the way you’d whisper about a clever shortcut into a smaller dress size. We’re ending up talking about them as a way to stay alive longer. That’s quite a journey for a weekly injection — and it’s the part of the story I actually can’t stop thinking about. I
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