59 summer problems solved – from sunburn and sweating to wasps and wedgies

Limp salad, bad barbecues, jellyfish stings and chafing. Summer can be a tricky season – but our experts are on hand to help with your hot-weather headaches

The kindness of strangers isn’t always obvious but it can be delightfully disarming

What at first glance looked like the actions of an angry, aggrieved individual turned out to be the embodiment of goodwill

UK universities urged to end drugs zero tolerance and focus on harm reduction

Report proposing new approach welcomed by mother of Jeni Larmour, who died after taking alcohol and ketamine

On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud review – the shrink’s shrink engagingly examined by Siri Hustvedt, Susie Boyt and others

Authors reassess the legacy of the father of psychotherapy in a lovely grab bag of essays

Do be a quitter! How I broke my exercise streak – and smashed my fitness goals

Should you struggle on when you’re really not feeling it? As I’ve learned, sometimes it’s much better to ditch your plan

Coming of Age: How Adolescence Shapes Us by Lucy Foulkes review – deep dive into the teenage mind

An academic psychologist’s insightful and compassionate study of adolescence is expertly presented, plotting out harmful as well as helpful transitions into adulthood

‘Clearly, I have no rizz’: can a 60-year-old misanthrope polish up his pulling power?

Love Islanders have it, daters want it and TikTok influencers will teach you how to get it – but rizz (a close cousin of charisma) is hard to fabricate

I am sober curious – but a little alcohol is still valuable to me

I could easily give up. But should I? It isn’t necessarily an easy question to answer

Maybe baby: could a fertility coach help you make an easier parenting decision?

Queer families, rising infertility, choosing to go it alone or not at all – the landscape of baby-making is shifting. Amelia Abraham meets a fertility coach to help make up her mind – well, almost

Heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua wants to open care home for retired boxers

Boxer says ex-fighters suffer poor health and that he hopes to help them as part of his sports legacy