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Why are young people all growing mullets? I’ve been inspired by a much better hairstyle

Forget Chris Waddle – the 18th-century dandy Beau Nash should be this season’s style icon, says Adrian Chiles

The Guardian - UK

Goodbye widescreen, hello tallscreen – soon we’ll watch everything from football to movies in portrait mode

The whole world is warping to fit the screens of our mobile phones. I’m bracing myself for a wave of dramas set on ladders and staircases, writes Adrian Chiles

The Guardian - UK

Have I found Britain’s very worst traffic lights for pedestrians?

The wait for the green man at these lights is unbearably slow – and then you only have 10 seconds to race across the road. But I did get a nice reply from the council when I complained, writes Adrian Chiles

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The present tense is perfect English for history, sports commentary – and jokes

Letters: Linguistics professor John O’Regan on history written in the present tense, and Simon Allen on other documentary annoyances

The Guardian - UK

Therapy has one big flaw, as I’ve seen for myself. But I know how to fix it

Most talking cures involve just one person telling their version of events. Let’s hear from their nearest and dearest

The Guardian - UK

The relentless rise of the present tense in history programmes

Letters: TV producer Dan Gold on the grammar trend that’s driving Adrian Chiles to distraction. Plus letters from Jinny Fisher, David Parker, David Barlow, Karen Barratt and Daniel Nelson

The Guardian - UK

Those tomatoes need pinching out, Adrian

Letter: Michelle Gibson offers advice to Adrian Chiles on his unruly plants

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Stop moralising about British history, Zadie Smith tells fans

She also spoke about abstaining from social media and recording the audiobook of her new novel

Evening Standard

I have created a monster. Can nothing save me from the tomato plant from hell?

All I wanted was some delicious homegrown produce. Now I’m the one who’s likely to end up as dinner, writes Adrian Chiles

The Guardian - UK

I love history programmes. But there’s one trend that makes my blood boil …

If something happened centuries ago, let’s talk about it as if it happened centuries ago – not as if it was going on right now, says Adrian Chiles

The Guardian - UK

It’s only a coat hanger. But it brings back such fond memories

A lifetime ago, in postwar Zagreb, my grandmother wrote her name on a wooden coat hanger. It means as much as any gravestone

The Guardian - UK

Want a glimpse of dystopia? Visit the self-service checkouts

Automated tills now take up much more space than those staffed by humans. We must resist, writes Adrian Chiles

The Guardian - UK

Where is The One Show filmed?

We reveal everything we know about where the popular TV programme is filmed

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My adventures at sea have brought me many things. Mainly raw nipples and exhaustion

Stumbling across my old paddleboard prompted a flood of memories, mostly of heaving the lumpen thing about. No wonder I abandoned it in my garden, writes Adrian Chiles

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How do you get a chatty friend to shut up? I think I have found the answer

What’s better than a companion who knows just what to say? A companion who knows when to zip it, writes Adrian Chiles

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Five Great Reads: CEO turns truckie, the orcas strike back and what Die Hard’s director learned in prison

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Kris Swales

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Picnic season is here - and I hate it

Do I want to have lunch with all the ants, flies, wasps, dogs and rodents that will inevitably turn up? No. And then there is the hell of sitting down ... writes Adrian Chiles

The Guardian - UK

Is anyone convinced by Saudi sportswashing? Only the crooks who sell fake football strips

Saudi Arabia is pouring a fortune into soccer, including £180m a year for Cristiano Ronaldo. But while the counterfeiters see a chance to make money, the fans won’t forget human rights, writes Adrian Chiles

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Moderation or total abstinence? Adrian Chiles and John Robins talk honestly about their drinking

Their relationship with booze has taken these friends and broadcasters on very different journeys. Here they discuss what constitutes heavy drinking, successful moderation – and when it is time to give up altogether

The Guardian - UK

Everything has turned grey – cars, clothes, kitchens, carpets. I can’t take it any more

Grey has nothing to do with joy, optimism, passion or life. Why has the world been drained of colour, asks Adrian Chiles

The Guardian - UK

Slapped on to tables, thrown over hedges, bounced – why is everyone so horrible to dead cats?

There’s something about a recently deceased moggie that excites the imagination. And not in a good way, writes Adrian Chiles

The Guardian - UK

Drinking alcohol is bad for you – end of. Ignore the headlines that claim otherwise

Another week, another article suggesting that alcohol may have health benefits. It’s amazing how desperate drinkers are to fool themselves, writes Adrian Chiles

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I’d love to laugh like a baby again. But the best I can hope for is a big sneeze

As adults, we are taught to keep a lid on our emotions. It has left me longing for the days of relentless, unbridled mirth, writes Adrian Chiles

The Guardian - UK

Psst! Want to buy some top-grade asparagus? My dad has the secret

I’d long wondered where my father got his hands on fresh bunches of the finest spears, writes Adrian Chiles. Then one day he revealed all

Evening Standard

Celebs pelted with cigarette butts in catwalk meltdown

Vogue magazine’s chief critic was “really not happy”

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