Richard Godwin

It turns out you *do* win friends with salad. (Bonus points to Men's Health's editors for allowing me to slip the phrase "men aren't as good at driving as women" in front of their readers)

As the coronavirus lockdown brought about a golden age of the queue in Britain, I looked into whether we are really such world-class queuers as we think we are

I profiled Nathalie, the founder of one of the leading 'surprise egg' channels on YouTube for the Sunday Times magazine. She's a nurse from Texas who ended up earning 12 times her former salary by playing with Play-Doh

Miki Jafa-Bodden thought she was moving to L.A. to take up a dream job as legal counsel at Bikram Yoga. She ended up fighting her way out of cult

I looked into why so many men are so bad at maintaining friendships

I profiled a number of self-proclaimed empaths: people who empathise so strongly with others, they claim it's like a "super-power".

Jenny had been living in Hong Kong for a couple of weeks when she fell “head over heels” in love with Christine, the creative director of a small fashion company. But there was a problem: Christine already had a girlfriend. And another problem: Christine was interviewing Jenny for a job at the company at the time.

On testosterone and masculinity (warning: features monkey bollocks).

The alcoholic commandments, extracted from my book, The Spirits: A Guide to Modern Cocktailing (Square Peg)

On Sally Rooney - and the various writers who have been dubbed/cursed 'Voice of a Generation' from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Bret Easton Ellis

On the death of the suit

I distilled life-hacks to the ten essentials: how to be happy, how to parent, how to escape your phone, how to yodel. From the Observer Magazine's New Year issue.

The Dopamine Fast is one of those Silicon Valley life-hacks that sounds like a joke – and perhaps still is a joke – but which doesn’t feel like a joke when you are eight hours into one yourself.

I looked into the increasing popularity of hip-hop in Russia - and its uneasy relationship with the Kremlin

Jigsaws have become hugely popular during the coronavirus lockdown. I looked into their bewitching appeal for Observer Magazine - and wondered what jigsaw art tells you about a nation's psyche