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How Britain lives

The live read on everyday life in Britain – how people spend their time, manage their homes, connect with others, and adapt as pressure reshapes daily routines.

Young woman curled up on a sofa in a dim kitchen, holding up a phone with a blank screen
The unsaid

Unfriends

12 May 2026

The one where no one came over. We didn't fall out, we just stopped showing up, and now we've forgotten how.

By Laura Gillespie

Older man frowning at his phone in front of a laptop showing a travel-deals site, with columns of figures behind him
The unsaid

Holidays became homework

11 May 2026

Now even getaways come with a spreadsheet.

By Laura Gillespie

Parents and two children walking hand in hand down a seaside street, with a hand holding an ice cream in the foreground
The unsaid

The quiet cost of "next year"

15 Apr 2026

Britain keeps promising itself a better summer. The data says it's been doing that for three years.

By Alison Bainbridge