100 ways to slightly improve your life without really trying

Whether it’s taking fruit to work (and to the bedroom!), being polite to rude strangers or taking up skinny-dipping, here’s a century of ways to make life better, with little effort involved …

Cut loose! Why it’s time to throw off the shackles of athleisure

Exercise is great, but we don’t need to shove it in each other’s faces by parading around in the kit all day

For plus-size women like me, dressing for joy is a radical act

This summer I’m going to wear what makes me feel great, physically and emotionally

From fringe to mainstream: how millions got a taste for going vegan

First, it was a fad. Now, as meat consumption falls, it’s part of everyday life … the unstoppable rise of the plant-based diet

‘Head-to-toe gold sequins!’: nine readers on their favourite post-lockdown party outfits

Now lockdown has eased, everyone is ditching the joggers and dressing up again. There’s just one question: what to wear?

The woman who lost her personal style and turned to TikTok to find it

With no intention of going viral, Amelia Crook crowdsourced a Queer Eye-style makeover from thousands of strangers, provoking tensions closer to home

‘The ground is unstable but there are pleasures all around’ – goodbye to the joy of small things

For three years, this column has been looking for sources of quotidian joy in the darkness. As it comes to an end, what tiny delights would other writers nominate?

‘I believe it’s a mental health issue’: the rise of Zoom dysmorphia

Time spent on the ‘funhouse mirror’ of video conferencing calls has resulted in a distortion of our self image

The male beauty myth: the growing acceptance of feeling comfortable looking good

Men who want to look good used to be disparaged and labelled vain. But times are finally changing…

An ear and nostril waxing is exquisitely painful – but just what I needed

I was introduced to the joys of male hair removal by a man with a cut-throat razor in 1987. Then last weekend I expanded my horizons