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May 15, 2021 Illustration by Denise Dorrance from ‘Manners: A Modern Field Guide’ by Kay Plunkett-Hogge (Pavilion, £12.99). Credit: Denise Dorrance Debora Robertson and Kay Plunkett-Hodge set out to write a book on modern manners just before the pandemic — and ended up creating a new guide for the times we now live in. Debora picks up the story and shares 39 tips. When my friend Kay Plunkett-Hogge and I first decided to write a book about manners for the modern world, we could hardly have imagined how much that world would change between our starting to write and it being pub...

Thu 13 May 2021 03.00 EDT “Hugs,” everybody keeps saying. “Who do you most want to hug on 17 May?” It’s an absurd act of prudishness. The real headline of next Monday is, of course, that this is the first day on which it will be legal (in England and most of Scotland, but not yet Wales or Northern Ireland) to have sex with a stranger since 22 March 2020. As we look ahead to the post-Covid dating world, the rules are very much a work in progress. From every quarter, one hears the same message: there is no such thing as zero risk. An acceptable gamble to one person will look like outr...

What tidy people can learn from messy people – and how the two can live together Chaos is not inherently creative, just as tidiness isn’t inherently virtuous 6 March 2021 • 6:00am You shouldn’t be judged for being messy but it shouldn’t be synonymous with dirty Credit: Justin Paget/Digital Vision When Jean-Paul Sartre wrote, “Hell is other people,” he may have been writing about the terror of constantly being watched, examined and judged by others. He might also have been reflecting on the torture of living with someone who never wipes up the crumbs after making toast, or the ag...