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    Consumer affairs
    The death of customer service: why has it become so, so bad?

    More than 75% of Britons say they are frustrated with poor service, and chatbot ‘helpers’ aren’t helping. Our consumer champion considers the problem – and how you can complain much more effectively
  • Rob Cowen with Ermine Street sign

    Travel
    A walk with Romans and ghosts on the Great North Road

    Tracing part of an ancient highway in Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire – now the A1 – proves rich in stories going back 2,000 years
  • Kimberly Campanello pictured in Brussels

    A moment that changed me
    I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s at 41 – and had to find a new look

    My beloved Converse All Stars had always been part of my identity. But when they became painful and impractical, it transformed my relationship with clothes
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    Health tech
    From sleep apps to chatbots: how a new generation of tech is widening access to treatment

    The latest digital therapies, prescribed and monitored by clinicians, could make treatment more convenient for patients across the UK
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    • Alissa Timoshkina's giant cabbage, pea and spring onion latka.

      Eastern food and drink
      Giant fritters and roast root veg with whipped feta: Alissa Timoshkina’s recipes for an eastern European Easter feast

    • Elle Hunt taking advice from B’Leaf’s Claire Bright

      Houseplants
      The houseplant murderer: can I become green fingered in eight easy steps?

    • espresso machines

      The Filter
      The best espresso machines to unleash your inner barista at home, tested

    • How to cut your water bills illustration

      Money hacks
      Snub the tub and buy a butt: nine ways to cut your water bill

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The Filter

  • Woman jumping in front of a blue background

    Rainbow vases, vintage soap dishes and crystal bike bells: 15 colourful pick-me-ups to elevate your everyday

  • Woman shopping in a secondhand marketplace in London.

    Set alerts, use filters and buy less: everything I’ve learned about secondhand shopping

  • A woman uses a jade gua sha

    The beauty treatments you can do at home – and the ones you really shouldn’t, according to the experts

  • Hot cross buns

    ‘Very pale and oddly wrinkly’: the best (and worst) supermarket hot cross buns for Easter, tested

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Fashion

  • Woman shopping in a secondhand marketplace in London.

    Set alerts, use filters and buy less
    Everything I’ve learned about secondhand shopping

    This week: top tips for buying preloved; the best secateurs, tested; and genuinely great-smelling diffusers
  • A woman uses a jade gua sha

    The Filter
    The beauty treatments you can do at home – and the ones you really shouldn’t, according to the experts

  • A model crouched down against a wooden background wearing a suede jacket

    Suede to go
    Leather’s hippy cousin is back for 2025

  • people shop at a clothing pop-up

    Price hike on Shein?
    How Trump tariffs could shift the US’s love of fast fashion

  • Dolly Parton does double denim

    We love
    Fashion fixes for the week ahead – in pictures

  • A heeled mule from the Balenciaga collaboration with Scholl.

    Fashion's ugly shoe trend
    Balenciaga and orthopaedic brand Scholl team up for ‘Frankenshoe’ hybrid

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Join Grace Dent and celebrity guests for a new season of Comfort Eating, as she throws the cupboard doors open and chats life through food.

Food

  • Half empty egg carton

    Vegan food
    Cheap, reliable egg alternatives: what to use for whipping, baking and high-protein snacking

    No one thing can replace an egg’s multiple uses – but based on what you’re cooking, easy, low-cost alternatives abound
  • Felicity Cloake's devilled eggs

    Felicity Cloake's masterclass
    How to make devilled eggs – recipe

  • Alissa Timoshkina's giant cabbage, pea and spring onion latka.

    Eastern European food and drink
    Giant fritters and roast root veg with whipped feta: an eastern European Easter feast – recipes

    Alissa Timoshkina
  • OM Nigel Salmon Kale Colcannon

    Nigel Slater's midweek dinner
    Nigel's recipe for salmon, kale and potatoes

  • A hand covers a wine glass refusing a top-up from a pouring bottle.

    In the red
    Global wine sales fall to lowest levels since 1961

  • Jose Pizarro's spring lamb and asparagus rice with saffron and fino.

    Spanish food and drink
    José Pizarro’s recipe for spring lamb and asparagus rice with saffron and fino

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Dishes you’ll come back to again and again and again

The Guardian’s Feast app has arrived. Think of it as a giant cookbook with over 5,000 recipes from our world-class cooks – only it fits in your pocket (handy for grabbing ingredients on the way home) and has loads of great features to take the stress (and boredom) out of cooking.

Start cooking for £2.99 per month and enjoy features such as cook mode, search by ingredient and save for later.

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Health & wellbeing

  • Young woman sleeping peacefully

    Cinderella partying: why young women no longer dance until dawn

  • Adrian Chiles

    I thought seasonal affective disorder was a myth. Then I saw the joy that spring can bring

    Adrian Chiles
    • Arwa Mahdawi

      You too can have a body like Donald Trump’s. Here’s how

      Arwa Mahdawi
    • An adult couple and their sons enjoying a day outdoors in a public park

      The best day ever: have scientists found the secret of happiness?

    • Rushing Commuters on the Millennium Bridge, London<br>Blurred commuters walking on the Millennium Bridge, and St Paul's Cathedral, London.

      ‘Cities trigger our imagination’: why a walk in town can be just as good for you as a stroll in the countryside

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The Next Generation Of Talent

Guardian Labs
  • The Brit School is renowned for producing world-class creative talent, but who are the next generation of graduates tipped for musical success? Discover the melodic vocals and blasting riffs of Lia Rye; the versatile drumming of Edi Idiong; Leona Rue's poetic lyrics; Ioana Garleanu's emotive songs; and the coming-of-age power pop of Ellie Evans
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    Five new Brit School artists you need to know about – video

  • Meet the Brit school’s next generation of young talent.

    Future stars
    Meet the Brit School’s next generation of bright young things

  • Daisy working with prosthetics at Iver Academy

    ‘We secretly applied without telling our parents’
    Why so many young people want to attend the Brit School

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    Brit School mentors
    ‘I always tell students to be unafraid’ – the joys of guiding young creatives

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Relationships

  • Brandon and Christine.

    How we met
    How we met: ‘We’re like two pieces of a puzzle clicking together’

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    Ask Philippa
    I’m nearly 60, but my father’s indifference towards me still stings

  • A man in a white T-shirt looks troubled as he reclines on a sofa with arms behind his head

    Sexual healing
    Should I stay with my partner – despite the dull, dispassionate sex?

  • An illustration of a woman from behind on an orange background

    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    My father threw out my box of memories, then took his own life. How do I move on?

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Travel

  • Rob Cowen with Ermine Street sign

    UK
    A walk with Romans and ghosts on the Great North Road

    Tracing part of an ancient highway in Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire – now the A1 – proves rich in stories going back 2,000 years
  • Hen harrier

    UK
    Raptors delight: a bird safari in the Forest of Bowland

  • Alma Vii, Transylvania, Romania - 27 June 2021: Transylvania tour, cycling on Via Transilvanica<br>2G6365E Alma Vii, Transylvania, Romania - 27 June 2021: Transylvania tour, cycling on Via Transilvanica

    Cycling holiday
    ‘A muddy ride into Romania’s dreamy countryside’: cycling the Via Transilvanica

  • two chefs laughing and drinking on steps Pigmeu restaurant in Lisbon

    City breaks
    10 Lisbon restaurants I’d recommend to a friend visiting the city

  • Close-up of woman's hand squeezing lemon juice on fresh oysters<br>Mid-section of young woman eating oyster at outdoor restaurant. Luxury lifestyle. Food and travel concepts.

    Readers' tips
    Share a tip on food and drink finds in France

  • abandoned fishing boats on the beach.

    UK
    The ghostly allure of Dungeness, Kent

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Money

  • A red telephone on wheels, a mascot for Direct Line Insurance Group Plc, sits on a table as staff members talk in the background in Direct Line's offices

    Consumer champions
    Direct Line chasing me over dead uncle’s cancelled car insurance

    Bereaved executor questions lack of tact and why insurer was not alerted by closed bank account
  • Stock photo of a hooded figure, resembling a crimninal, with a mobile phone

    Consumer affairs
    EE was unapologetic after I tried to stop a sim swap fraud

  • A modern block of flats with its pale-coloured cladding partially removed

    Property
    An expelled fire safety engineer has made my flat unsaleable

  • Homes
    The squabbling, the vomiting, the freeloading and the noisy sex: my 10 worst house-share moments

  • Consumer champions
    My daughter is still being pursued despite ScottishPower recalling £1,000 debt

  • Divorce
    Our divorce ruling may have enabled my ex-husband to trash my credit score

  • Scams
    No sign of any U-turn on match-day parking scam near Old Trafford

  • Class issues
    My life in class limbo: am I working class or insufferably bourgeois?

  • Retail industry
    ‘Please leave feedback’: how constant online reviews are changing our brains – and our lives

Puzzles

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    Crossword blog
    The Guardian’s April fool crossword explained – plus the other papers’ fooling

  • Cryptic crosswords
    Cryptic crossword No 29,671

    • Quick crosswords
      Quick crossword No 17,144

    • Sudoku
      Sudoku 6,864 hard

    • Prize crosswords
      Prize crossword No 29,667

    • Killer sudoku
      Observer killer sudoku

    • Thomas Eaton
      The world’s largest comic convention is held in which city? The Saturday quiz

    • Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
      Did you solve it? That’s numberwang!

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    Nik and Maria Payne were raising their ‘wild and free’ children in the Norwegian countryside when cancer turned their lives upside down. The reluctant stars of A New Kind of Wilderness talk about a world without Maria
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The big picture

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    Spring hits: Transeasonal wardrobe updates – in pictures

    Warm weather is almost here. Step into your summer wardrobe with these 12 outfit updates
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