EXPLAINED: 2 - The Real Truth

‘This feels exactly the right place to be’: Sir Patrick Vallance on pandemics, eco-anxiety and leading the Natural History Museum

The UK’s former chief scientific adviser, a familiar face during Covid, talks about his new role as chair of the London museum and putting its collection at the heart of our climate response

The Guardian - UK · Jul 15, 2023

Rocketmen, ravers and relief from the sun: Sunday at Glastonbury – photo essay

The 2023 Glastonbury festival finished with a bang: Elton John closing the Pyramid stage and Lil Nas X bringing reptiles and ridiculousness to Worthy Farm

The Guardian - UK · Jun 26, 2023

My Glastonbury hygiene diary: ‘I am just pushing dirt around my body’

With sweltering heat, pungent toilets and interminable queues for the showers, staying clean at Britain’s biggest festival is hard. Is it better just to fester?

The Guardian - UK · Jun 25, 2023

‘I still can’t handle the big ones’: the new wave of spider hunters scouring Britain’s heaths

Having already discovered the presumed extinct great fox-spider, Mike Waite goes hunting on MoD land armed with a pair of his wife’s tights, an old medicine syringe and plastic cups

The Guardian - UK · Apr 7, 2023

Tower Bridge steam-cleaned and a Kentish Serengeti: the River Thames, part three

The third part of Jill Mead’s look at a year in the life of the great River Thames takes in the waterway over the course of some of the colder months

The Guardian - UK · Apr 6, 2023

Dining across the divide: ‘I thought I was going to meet an awful Tory – but it was wonderful, we swapped numbers’

One is centre-right, the other a socialist. They disagreed on Thatcherism and nuclear weapons, but will being part of the same LGTBQ+ community save the day?

The Guardian - UK · Mar 23, 2023

My food revolution: how I learned to love a gluten-free diet

After years of pain, the diagnosis of coeliac disease was a crucial turning point for Lizzy Davies. She explains the changes it forced her to make – and how she learned to love food once again

The Guardian - UK · Mar 18, 2023

The resilience secret: 13 ways to stay strong and active – from the man who runs a marathon a day

Every morning this year, Aaron Robinson has arisen before dawn and run 26 miles before work. He explains how to turn an intimidating exercise plan into a simple habit

The Guardian - UK · Mar 2, 2023

‘You just have to keep trying’: the people helping Birmingham’s rough sleepers

Outreach and charity workers talk about the day-to-day issues they face when dealing with the city’s homelessness problem

The Guardian - UK · Feb 28, 2023

Rats, mould, damp: one woman’s story reveals the ugly truth about the UK’s biggest housing association

A mother of three’s struggle with Clarion over her squalid home reflects a system rigged to favour asset-owners while renters are abandoned, says the Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

The Guardian - UK · Feb 17, 2023