We’re down to the last couple of cigarettes in the noxious 85% tar pack of 2025. What shall we light them with? A Brat-green Clipper from last year that we just found behind the sofa? A £50 ...

Time was, I would review this Blind Date column every week, but nowadays it’s very rare for me to do two weeks in a row. Time gets away from me, my brain doesn’t work on Saturday mornings any more, I ...

2025: where every day is like Sunday. A Sunday in Hell, while old episodes of RI:SE play in the background. Today we are going for a v quick spin round the latest GBD, between Henry, a 28-year-old ...

Summer loving happened so fast according to Travolta, J and Newton-John, O, but how quickly will love blossom between Max, 25, a chef, and Kajol, also 25, and a doctor. Two professions straight out of ...

St Valentine may have packed up his giant helium balloons, petrol station flowers, grotesque life-size teddy bears with matted plush, and cheap massage oil, but your favourite romantic dynamic duo – ...

After last week’s Belfast fairy-tale, the magical month of March finds us back in London, projecting our misguided need for love and happiness in troubled times on Yukari, 29, a freelance motion ...

Fate has thrown together in the Guardian Blind Date blender of doom Imelda, 56, a local authority officer, and Jayesh, 66, who works in medical devices. Two jobs I want to know absolutely nothing more ...

In these serious times, there is a feeling of guilt attached to frivolity. A sense, perhaps, that you’re playing MarioKart while Rome frazzles. Political intrigue has rendered showbiz gossip ...

For reasons best known to the Guardian, this week’s Blind Date takes place in Berlin, which, for those who were busy nodding off in geography or off school altogether doing aerosols through a tea ...

You know when people who aren’t famous or popular enough to have advanced features on Instagram say things like, “link in bio”? This is like that. Here are those links!

A couple of things we need to get through before we wade in with our knockoff Hunters that we got from the car boot sale from the man who has L-V-O-E tattooed on his left knuckles: THE GLORIOUS DEAD ...

The next edition of my newsletter The truth about everything* goes out at 00:01 on Wednesday 27 October. It’s on why we like Adele even if we’re not fans of her ...