Say oui to ennui: how to face, and even embrace, your boredom
Tedium’s payouts are so much more than the €50,000 awarded to French employee Frédéric Desnard for ‘boreout’
‘The antidote to addiction is love’: Joe Wicks on learning to forgive his father
The online fitness guru, keeping Britain’s children fit during lockdown, reveals the challenges in his own childhood
Blam! Dennis the Menace and Roger the Dodger to teach British pupils about money
Bank of England and Beano team up in primary school course on financial literacy
From going grey to hand washing: 12 lockdown habits we’re going to keep
Life in lockdown has been an exercise in patience, but for some, there have been rewards worth bringing into their ‘new normals’
‘This man knows he’s dying as surely as I do’: a doctor’s dispatches from the NHS frontline
As lockdown is relaxed, many in the NHS are left reeling. Palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke shares her experience working with coronavirus patients, and her fears of a second wave
‘Hero bikes’: how free bicycles are transforming the lives of Scotland’s key workers
The Bike Station, a Scottish bicycle recycling charity, is offering free bikes to NHS staff and other key workers during the coronanvirus crisis. Photographs by Murdo MacLeod
An A to Z of old words to calm and inspire hope
Have a ‘kaffeeklatsch’ until you become ‘unsoulclogged’: archaic soothing terms to use in troubling times
A letter to my post-lockdown self: ‘Keep listening to the birds’
Author Bernardine Evaristo, broadcaster Hugh Pym, playwright James Graham and more pen letters to themselves, to be opened in May 2021
Sara Maitland: ‘Savour solitude – it is not the same as loneliness’
The author of How to Be Alone argues that concerns about the effects of lockdown may be misplaced
Inferno; What Have I Done? – fearless accounts of postpartum psychosis
Catherine Cho and Laura Dockrill are painfully honest about the horrors they experienced as new mothers in the grip of a terrible illness