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  • Paula Doyle among grassy sand dunes

    How we survive
    ‘I couldn’t let this monster get away with it’: how I survived rape - and sent my attacker to prison

    Paula Doyle was raped by a man she had known for years. It took five painful years for the case to come to trial, but she was determined to fight for justice
  • Kate McCusker with phone

    Phones
    ‘No, I’m not phoning to say I’m dying!’ My gruelling week of calling gen Z friends rather than texting them

    Phone calls can be inconvenient, stressful or actively unpleasant – especially if you’re part of my generation. At 27, can I survive seven days without texts or group chats? And will I still have a social life at the end?
  • Nardi Venezia<br>Nardi, Venice, Italy. - Salute pendant. Made in yellow gold set with diamonds and briolette-cut orange sapphires.

    Venice holidays
    Merchants of Venice: 10 of the city’s most beautiful historic shops

    From an elegant apothercary to a jewellers in a baroque salon, these stores all have atmospheric interiors and a history of exquisite craftsmanship
  • Women's Puffertech Compact Jacket and Men's Hybrid Down Coat

    Down coats
    How to choose the perfect puffer jacket

    They’re cosy, reliable and trendy – but there’s a lot more to consider when picking a down jacket. Here’s everything you need to know
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    • Waitrose trolleys in a car park

      Your problems, with Anna Tims
      Waitrose won’t pay my claim after a £5,000 car park trolley crash

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      Money hacks
      Eight ways to reduce condensation in your home

    • A car parked on a deserted road at night

      Kindness of strangers
      I pulled over in hysterics – then a passing driver saved me from the spider

    • Alys Fowler (right) and her wife, Ele

      The one change that worked
      I woke up to my phone alarm – until my wife insisted on a new morning routine

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The Filter

  • Bottles of hot sauces arranged artfully on a red background.

    ‘A bit of ageing helps enormously!’: the best hot sauces, tasted and rated by Thomasina Miers

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    The best massage guns: tried and tested relief for sore, tired muscles

  • Still life for Sali Hughes winter beauty 2025

    Winter beauty essentials: Sali Hughes’s 30 favourite cold weather products

  • Whiskey on the rocks served in whiskey glass

    The best whisky: 10 tried and tested scotch tipples, from single malt to blended

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Fashion

  • Willy Chavarria: Runway - Paris Fashion Week - Menswear Fall-Winter 2025/2026<br>PARIS, FRANCE - JANUARY 24: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY - For Non-Editorial use please seek approval from Fashion House) Models walk the runway during the Willy Chavarria Menswear Fall-Winter 2025/2026 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 24, 2025 in Paris, France. (Photo by Lyvans Boolaky/Getty Images)

    Sermons, scaffolding and hand luggage only
    Highlights from Milan and Paris men’s fashion weeks – in pictures

    From Kim Jones’s rumoured last outing at Dior to Willy Chavarria’s political stance in France, here are the autumn/winter 2025 collections to know about
  • A model on the runway in a white outfit

    Paris couture fashion week
    Dior reinvents Lewis Carroll’s Alice for the Brat era

  • Donald Trump kisses his wife during his inauguration

    Donald Trump
    Designers ‘afraid’ of getting on Trump’s wrong side … and still put Melania in that hat

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    The edit
    The best pyjamas – in pictures

  • Close up shot of woman with facial mask in bathroom. Beautiful female doing beauty treatment after bath.<br>HAHCWW Close up shot of woman with facial mask in bathroom. Beautiful female doing beauty treatment after bath.

    The beauty spot
    Hydrating face masks: 10 of the best

  • Model wearing a crocus flower print dress

    We love
    Fashion fixes for the week ahead – in pictures

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Join Grace Dent and celebrity guests for a new season of Comfort Eating, as she throws the cupboard doors open and chats life through food.

Food

  • Don’t save salads for summer: broccoli with coconut milk and cashews; aubergine, feta, chickpeas and rose harissa; mackerel, potato and mustard.

    Nigel Slater’s winter salad recipes
    Broccoli and cashews, aubergine with chickpeas, celeriac and sausage

    Hot and cold, raw and cooked, soft and crisp: these are winter salads with bite
  • Georgina Hayden's herby crispy, rice, shallot and lemongrass salad.

    Lunar new year
    Georgina Hayden’s recipe for a herby, crispy rice, shallot and lemongrass salad

  • OM Nigel Hot Banana Sundae

    Nigel Slater's midweek dinner
    A recipe for caramelised banana sundae

  • Guirong Wei's egg and tomato sauce noodles.

    Noodles
    Guirong Wei’s home-style sauces for Chinese noodles – recipes

  • Rachel Roddy's tuna and potato cakes.

    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for potato and tinned fish cakes

  • Rukmini Iyer's one-tin roast cauliflower and paneer curry.

    Quick and easy
    Rukmini Iyer’s roast cauliflower and paneer curry

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Dishes you’ll come back to again and again and again

2025 has arrived, so why not start the new year discovering new flavours? The Guardian’s Feast app has over 5,000 recipes from our world-class cooks plus editorially-curated seasonal collections and smart app features to help take the stress (and boredom) out of cooking.

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Health & wellbeing

  • Eat the rainbow … the best way to fill the fibre gap.

    The fibre phenomenon: 30 easy ways to get your fill of this life-changing nutrient

  • woman lifting barbell

    ‘If you wee yourself, you just rock on’: is incontinence inevitable for women who lift heavy?

    • Emma Beddington

      Somehow, it is still January. Here are my nine wellness-free survival tips

      Emma Beddington
    • Various people holding their aching muscles and head.

      From stiff necks to ‘lazy glutes’: why these unloved muscles could prevent injury – and how to train yours

    • People in the gym

      ‘Resolutionaries’ v gym rats: why fitness fanatics hate the crowded gyms of January

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Relationships

  • Brandon and Christine.

    How we met
    How we met: ‘We’re like two pieces of a puzzle clicking together’

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    Ask Philippa
    I’ve lost contact with my mother and feel I’m the family pariah

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    Sexual healing
    I love my husband – but his yellow teeth and back hair give me the ick

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    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    My partner wants an open relationship, but is also jealous of my friendships with women

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Travel

  • Nardi Venezia<br>Nardi, Venice, Italy. - Salute pendant. Made in yellow gold set with diamonds and briolette-cut orange sapphires.

    Italy
    Merchants of Venice: 10 of the city’s most beautiful historic shops

    From an elegant apothercary to a jewellers in a baroque salon, these stores all have atmospheric interiors and a history of exquisite craftsmanship
  • The resort of Söll in Austria’s SkiWelt region.

    Skiing
    Even the black slopes are green: my eco-friendly skiing break in Austria

  • Volterra, walled town southwest of Florence, in Italy.<br>Sunset in Volterra, a mountaintop town in the Tuscany region of Italy.

    Readers' tips
    Share a tip on less-known Italy

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    Balkans
    Mardi Gras the Balkan way – alternatives to Venice carnival

  • A family on the lawn at Court House Farm

    UK
    Three generations, one Tudor manor and some light trauma: a multi-generational break in Somerset

  • The Pyramid of Cestius forms part of the Aurelian Wall, seen from the Non-Catholic Cemetery where Keats is buried in Rome, Italy<br>2BKGK7X The Pyramid of Cestius forms part of the Aurelian Wall, seen from the Non-Catholic Cemetery where Keats is buried in Rome, Italy

    Italy
    When in Rome … go where the Romans go, not the tourist crowds

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Money

  • Students throwing their hats in the air on to celebrate on graduation day.

    Your problems, with Anna Tims
    The Home Office barred me from attending my own graduation

    I am an international student and was thrilled to be invited – but my visa application was refused
  • The John Lewis store in Westfield, Stratford London.

    Consumer affairs
    Broken gadget puts John Lewis two-year promise on electrical to the test

  • above view of mobile phone in open drawer of nightstand

    Mobile phones
    My mother has Alzheimer’s but O2 won’t refund unused phone contract

  • The experts
    From the perfect CV to acing an interview – experts on 23 ways to get the job of your dreams

  • Your problems, with Anna Tims
    All my accounts were shut down when TSB labelled me a ‘fraudster’ instead of the victim

  • Your problems, with Anna Tims
    Virgin Atlantic sorry for ‘inconvenient’ delay to £2,000 refund

  • Your problems, with Anna Tims
    I got zero tolerance for my O for 0 typo at the car park

  • Consumer champions
    My disabled mother paid £500 to travel near an Avanti accessible toilet … and it was closed

  • Consumer champions
    My identity had been stolen but Three failed to respond

Puzzles

  • As well as a chancellor, a REEVE is also a kind of sandpiper, the female of the striking ruff (pictured)

    Crossword blog
    Which members of the cabinet are crossword-worthy?

  • Cryptic crosswords
    Cryptic crossword No 29,603

    • Quick crosswords
      Quick crossword No 17,076

    • Sudoku
      Sudoku 6,774 medium

    • Prize crosswords
      Prize crossword No 29,601

    • Killer sudoku
      Observer killer sudoku

    • Thomas Eaton
      Who is the only England bowler to take two Test hat-tricks? The Saturday quiz

    • Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
      Did you solve it? Logicians in a line

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    Away with Anthony Burke: ‘We did yoga twice a day and listened to the monkeys and elephants at night’

    In Guardian Australia’s weekly interview about travel, the Grand Designs Australia host reveals why he always packs a sketchbook, and welcomes things ‘not working out’
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The big picture

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    Great Scot! What to wear for Burns Night

    With the Traitors finale and Burns Night falling over the same weekend, the time is ripe for kilts, checks and chunky knits
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