A job that changed me: Working the pool kiosk in the summer of ’82, I was excited when older boys came by – but I learned that respect is better than attention (www.theguardian.com)
Chatbots can exploit our most basic human drive for attachment. Here’s how to have healthier relationship with AI Gaynor Parkin and Dave Winsborough (www.theguardian.com)
The kindness of strangers: On a busy motorway, my child vomited in the car. I was overwhelmed – then a man came with a bucket of water (www.theguardian.com)
Dining across the divide: ‘The young have so much idealism – but for him everything was determined by getting the Conservatives elected’ (www.theguardian.com)
‘You start to worry you’ll never listen to anything else’: 25 years of Can’t Get You Out of My Head, the song that saw the future of pop (www.theguardian.com)
Think of the parable of a frog in boiling water. That’s us dithering as the ‘unprecedented‘ weather becomes more extreme Helen Pilcher (www.theguardian.com)