The return of the stiff upper lip

Posted April 12th 2010, by Rosie Ifould

Will the popularity of Botox revive old fashioned British reserve?

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Can you keep a secret?

Posted April 7th 2010

From small, intimate secrets to family mysteries, there are all sorts of events that we keep quiet about, or that others keep hidden from us.

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Obsessive communication disorder

Posted March 22nd 2010, by Sophie Herdman

A new form of addiction is one the rise.

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Is this the end of small talk?

Posted March 9th 2010, by Rebecca Alexander

I hate to admit it, but I felt a thrill of happiness when I saw that small talk has officially been declared inferior to its grown-up cousin – heartfelt and profound conversation (or deep-and-meaningfuls as we used to call them at school, when a D&M was an important relationship rite of passage). This will come [...]

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How to get other people to do the housework

Posted March 3rd 2010, by Rosie Ifould

An interesting snippet in the news today. Apparently, Alastair Campbell is a housework refusnik. His partner, Fiona Miller, revealed to the Radio Times that even before they had children, ‘Alastair never took any interest in cooking or shopping’ and he sabotaged the vacuum cleaner (he didn’t mention it when we interviewed him for our March [...]

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How to…get anyone to tell you anything

Posted March 3rd 2010

Wendy Sullivan has spent years researching ‘clean language’ questions, designed to help deepen our understanding of what other people are really trying to say. Laura Bond asks her how we can master these skills.

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