Society
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Call for UK gambling reform after ‘generous and caring’ woman takes her own life
A family is calling for wholesale reform of the gambling industry after…
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Four-fifths of UK mental health nurses say their workload is unmanageable
Mental health patients in the UK are routinely coming to harm because…
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Cosmeticorexia: a worrying obsession with flawless skin or just a new term for an old problem?
Sephora stores are being overrun with tweens pumping product testers. Eight-year-olds film…
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Even without social media, phones have a subtle, damaging effect on our mental health | Devi Sridhar
When I first started teaching at Oxford in 2005, I would offer…
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Suicide-related callouts to fire services triple in England in a decade
Suicide-related callouts to fire and rescue services in England have tripled in…
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Weekly bread rolls and an Irish bender: six readers on gestures that made them feel less lonely
The rise of social media, disappearing third spaces, displeasure with dating apps:…
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Don’t knock small talk. It has the power to mend a world ripped apart by rage | Bidisha
Hi there, how’re you? How’s it going? You alright? All good? As…
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Animal welfare, Animals, Dogs, Mental health, Society, UK cost of living crisis, UK news, Voluntary sectorCost of living and mental health crisis driving mass animal rescues, says RSPCA
The cost of living crisis and an increase in people experiencing mental…
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Judith Rapoport obituary
The child psychiatrist Judith Rapoport, who has died aged 92, is credited…
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Diets and dieting, Drugs, Health, Life and style, Mental health, Science, Society, Weight-loss drugsIs a new weight-loss drug making people fall out of love?
A recent TikTok video shows a man in a black baseball cap,…