A couple of years ago, while on a bike-packing trip through Armenia and Georgia, my friend Amy and I walked through the streets of Tbilisi. We were both 49 years old at the time, and I told her about how, over the last year, I felt as if I had become …

For the six years Erica and her husband have been together, the relationship has been great — they’re very much in love, they communicate well and enjoy each other’s company. Their sex life, however, is another story.During the …

We’re quick to declare when a photo has #NoFilter, but when we’ve added a sweet hint of Clarendon or a smidge of Valencia? Nada. But should we tell the world when we’ve edited our pictures?It’s a question I’ve been po…

You’re reading The Waugh Zone, our daily politics briefing. Sign up now to get it by email in the evening.Ever since Gordon Brown blundered into giving pensioners a measly 75p rise in their pension, politicians have been terrified of up…

Boris Johnson has been accused of making “empty promises” to British bioscience firms after it emerged that new rapid Covid tests offered to NHS staff are manufactured by a Chinese firm.Lateral flow tests made by Zhejiang Orient Gene Biotec…

Going on holiday this summer just got a little bit easier, because the government has relaxed some of the quarantine rules on international travel. From July 19, those who have had both doses of the coronavirus vaccine will no longer have to quar…

The NHS Covid app is to be made more “risk appropriate” amid fears that the public is deleting it from their smartphones to avoid being forced into home isolation, a leading public health chief has revealed.Jenny Harries, the head of the ne…