University and mental health

Anna Stringer introduces the first editor’s picks of term and comments on the issue of mental health at university.

Covid stress and Eton mess  

This week Satire brings us both an appetising and apolitical Eton mess recipe.

How to get a cat to like you  

A giant squid, and other worthy uses of Covid grants

Colin and Cuthbert: star-cross’d lovers?

Home: an ode to Lancashire

Hands, face, (3400 miles of) space: 9 Dubai pastimes you didn’t know classed as work

Another lockdown, another banana bread

Christmas conflict: which argument will you have this year?

France’s hidden gems