One in ten

It’s not the big birthdays ending with 0 that throw us – it’s the 365 days before them, says Clare Bowie. Here, she reflects on life ‘on the cusp’

I just read Holly McHugh’s Q&A ‘What is the birthday effect?’ (March 2024, p83). It made me wonder, if birthday deaths are statistically higher – in part, because of alcohol consumption and terminally

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Mankind may be tribal and sociable by nature, yet the ‘bliss of solitude’–a state previously reserved for hermits– is the key to achieving inner peace, says Laura Parker

Four in 10 people feel lonely working from home