Columnists

Social media is just TV now – and we can’t stop changing the channel

Big tech’s biggest players are aggressively competing with TikTok’s clip-based offering – and that is cutting the social from social media

The Let Them Theory may be ‘non-fiction’ but it has no facts

Mel Robbins’s bestseller is the worst kind of advice for young women

My three-year-old has bold ambitions for Halloween

Being old enough to choose your own costume is a milestone, but how did a baby shark end up becoming a pumpkin?

AI can’t care for you

I won’t be looked after by a robot anytime soon

Fashion Week showed us the body positivity movement is over

The main trend revealed on the catwalks is that women are expected to be thinner

‘I’ve fallen in love with school lunch leftovers’

A new initiative sees top chefs cook school meals from scratch

Without a two-state solution, what hope is there?

Both sides in the conflict are entrenched in their unwillingness to cede ground to the other

Having kids has changed my cinema experience

The psychedelic joy of children’s screenings has replaced the indulgence of going to the movies as an adult

Is the AI bubble history repeating itself? Ask a chatbot

The AI industry is run on hype and inflated expectations. But the numbers won’t always go up

What lethal weapon can you own at 17? A car

My daughter’s friends are passing their driving tests. Are they ready for road? I know I wasn’t

My son’s stories remind me of my own early literary works

His creative writing leads me to retell the time I invented an entire fish festival

Our boy thought sleeping in his clothes would be a genius life hack

Not all practical lessons have the outcome you want

‘Intimate deodorants suggest we want our genitals to smell like food’

The growing hunger for fragrance rather than food has led to new ways to cover our bodily odours with gourmet scents

'If garden tools really count as weaponry, I’m in command of a small arsenal'

Since when were secateurs ‘a bladed weapon in a public space’?

‘My son’s pretend bookshop is not profitable, but it’s exciting’

‘Books! Books’ he shouts out, in the manner of a carnival barker, while my daughter manically operates a Fisher-Price cash register

The case for… Bad photos of ourselves

What the heck is this bog-eyed, court-sketch-artist slap in the face?

The book that transformed my writing life

The Artist’s Way is full of hokey self-affirmations – but it taught me to stop worrying and love the brainstorm

The case for… Baths

‘Lying in your own filth’? How dirty are these people?