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It’s not too late to turn your year around – here’s how to set goals for the rest of the year and stick to them

Year not panned out as you’d hoped? Manifest your dream end to the year with these tried-and-tested goal-setting tips.

Lily Smith

19 August 202617 August 2026

It’s not too late to turn your year around – here’s how to set goals for the rest of the year and stick to them

Career

The real reason you’re struggling to focus at work – and 5 questions to ask yourself before resigning

Can’t concentrate on your work? Here’s how to figure out what’s going on – and if it might be time for a career change.

Lily Smith

17 August 202615 August 2026

The real reason you’re struggling to focus at work – and 5 questions to ask yourself before resigning

Career / Mental health

Six red flags your boss could be a psychopath: Dark personality traits in the workplace

A narcissistic boss. A toxic workplace. A destructive leader who leaves you doubting yourself. New research suggests dark personality traits may be surprisingly common in leadership roles — and the impact on employees can be devastating. We’ve all encountered them: the manager who thrives on intimidation, takes credit for others’ ideas, or somehow leaves every […]

Sally Saunders

14 June 202612 June 2026

Six red flags your boss could be a psychopath: Dark personality traits in the workplace

Career

I don’t think I can change job — but can I change how I feel about my work?

Accepting the fact that there is no ideal job can be a liberating experience, says Emma Cook

Psychologies

5 March 20265 March 2026

I don’t think I can change job — but can I change how I feel about my work?

The food secret that could keep your brain sharper for longer — and it doesn’t cost a penny!

New research suggests that when we eat may influence how well our brains age – as well as our waistlines We tend to think about healthy ageing in terms of what we eat: more vegetables, enough protein, fewer ultra-processed foods. But new research suggests there may be another question worth asking: when do we eat? […]

Could your diet be making your brain fog worse?

New research suggests that eating more ultra-processed food is associated with poorer attention and slower mental processing – even among people with otherwise healthy diets. There are days when your brain just doesn’t seem to be working properly. You read a sentence and immediately forget it. Sometimes you walk into a room and can’t remember […]

Eating on autopilot? This could help you take back control

Paying closer attention to hunger, fullness and how food makes us feel could help us make different choices – without turning eating into another set of rules. When eating becomes habitual, it’s easy to lose touch with some of the signals that tell us when we’re hungry and when we’ve had enough. We might eat […]

Are we making our relationship with food more complicated than it needs to be?

From childhood messages about finishing your vegetables to the language of “good” and “bad” foods, the way we learn to think about eating can shape our relationship with food for years. Our relationship with food doesn’t begin with diets, calorie counting or concerns about weight. It starts much earlier. As babies, says nutritionist Laura Thomas, […]

How to stop comfort eating — without giving up comfort food

If stress, boredom or difficult emotions send you straight to the kitchen, the answer may not be more willpower. It may be having more ways to cope. Comfort eating is often described as a bad habit that needs to be broken. But if you regularly eat when you’re stressed, bored, lonely or overwhelmed, simply telling […]

The real reason you eat when you’re not hungry

As the conversation around appetite and weight changes, what is it about certain foods that makes us reach for them when we need comfort? The rise of GLP-1 medications has put appetite and weight firmly in the spotlight. But while some people are choosing medication to help manage their weight and appetite, others may simply […]