I’ve always disliked getting up in winter. As a kid, I’d hurkle-durkle while blearily watching my school uniform warming on the radiator. These days, I set smartphone alarms for several consecutive minutes, just to make sure I’m roused. It’s too dark, and I’m too groggy. The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission…
In 2014, Larissa Manley was a first-year university student in Victoria with just $300 in her bank account. In her search for a way to make cash quickly, she considered selling some of the dresses she’d bought for university balls and high school formals, but didn’t want to part with them. “I thought, why not…
For a man who was supposed to be dead next month, Ian Smith looks good. Astoundingly good: huge smile, glowing skin, that famous wobbly chin. There is only one visible clue that he has terminal cancer: a freshly shaved head, over which he frequently rubs his hand. Chemotherapy left him with “an awful half shaggy,…
Elizabeth Barbour didn’t start studying law until she was 54 and had a school-age daughter. “But once I decide to do something, I’m hard to stop,” she says. Law is an atypical later-life career choice. It certainly bore no connection to Barbour’s first and second vocations, as a hand model and then a real-estate developer. “Law…
Retinol has long been hailed as a gold-standard ingredient in anti-ageing skincare, but it’s also surrounded by misconceptions. One of the most common? That the vitamin A derivative “thins the skin”. Dr Rosalind Simpson, a medical dermatologist from the Centre of Evidence Based Dermatology at the University of Nottingham, says that this is not quite true. She says retinol, which…