When is it OK to go shirtless? What time can you start drinking on holiday? And can you ask a stranger to apply your sunscreen? Experts explain the behaviour that’s hot this summer – and what’s really, really notSummer means a...
Read MoreDo you keep your headphones on at the checkout? Or chat people up then never follow through? You need our expert guide to the new social faux pas – and how to avoid them*** Continue...
Read MoreHe gets slammed as an entitled nepo baby, and just keeps doing what he enjoys, unruffled. Here are five things I’d do, if only I had his confidenceNepo babies provoke a unique brand of ire. Fittingly, they seem to bring out the...
Read MoreThey just want to help children safely across the road on their way to and from school. Yet lollipop people are having to wear body cameras after an increase in abusive and dangerous drivers. How did things get so out of...
Read MoreAre influencers really the biggest problem facing waiting staff? Not compared with the customer who demanded I pick up her dog’s poo …Influencers have had a bad time of it at restaurants recently. There they are, just...
Read MoreForget fear of public speaking. A lot of people now shy away completely from speaking to anyone in public. But if we learn to do this it’s enriching, for ourselves and societyIt started with two incidents on the same day. In a...
Read MoreThere used to be hundreds of pie and mash shops in London. Now there are barely more than 30. Can social media attention and a push for protected status ensure their survival?Outside it’s raining so hard that the sandwich board...
Read MoreFrom picking your guests (always add a random) and your outfit, to coping with drunks and nudity, this is what you need to knowWhen I was young, I thought the worst thing you could do, as a host, was to run out of booze. Then,...
Read MoreHe films people breaking his self-created ‘laws’ of street decorum and posts the videos online – with many viewers expressing their gratitude. So watch out if you’re rushing along on your phone or wheeling a small bag that could...
Read MoreThere is the initial group. Then the side group. Then another splinter group. Suddenly, in your bones, you know the wrong message is going to end up with the wrong person …It’s the new last taboo. Officially added to the list of...
Read MoreThose aged between 13 and 28 have been accused of deploying a bored, superior expression. As a woman in her 50s, let me tell you I can do a slack-mouthed look of bafflement better than anyoneHave you been the victim of a gen Z...
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