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• Clear and present danger. Oh, the embarrassment

  21 Jul 2010: Why gift-giving can be a can of worms9 comments

• Would you rent a friend?

  21 Jul 2010:

  Feeling lonely? Don't have anyone to go to the pub with? Then a friend rental service could be just the thing you need. But what's it like to spend a day with someone you're paying to be your friend?

  163 comments

• Rent a friend? What a wrong-headed notion

  19 Jul 2010: Mark Vernon: The new Rent a Friend website is insidious and fails to distinguish between being useful and being used71 comments

• Robert Butler obituary

  18 Jul 2010: Doctor who worked to change perceptions of ageing and the aged

• Can the fight against teenage knife crime be won?

  18 Jul 2010: Amnesties, clampdowns, longer jail terms: all have failed since Philip Lawrence's death 15 years ago. Now, as his killer is released, there is a new urgency to the search for a solution

• Britons renew their love of seaside resorts as cost of holidays abroad soars

  18 Jul 2010:

  The retro charms of British coastal resorts – from sticks of rock to Punch and Judy shows - are luring holidaymakers who can't afford to fly away to foreign shores

  24 comments

• Prenuptial agreements on rise amongst younger men

  18 Jul 2010: High earners are rejecting their fathers' romantic view of marriage to protect assets

• From the archive, 14 July 1930: The Uninvited Caller. Hawkers and Canvassers

  14 Jul 2010: Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 14 July 1930: I wish there was some way of stopping the nuisance of unwelcome callers. We are constantly told that running a house is a full-time job, and it is

• Study challenges belief that it's marriage that keeps couples together

  7 Jul 2010: Thinktank argues that age, income and education are much more important for stability in relationships

• Britons admit they just can't live without home internet

  6 Jul 2010: Domestic web connection joins holidays, mobile phones and fridge-freezer among necessities of modern life, Joseph Rowntree Foundation finds

• Grindr: a new sexual revolution?

  4 Jul 2010:

  Grindr is a free phone app which lets gay men instantly pinpoint each. It has already transformed the sex lives of 700,000 men around the world. But could it work in the straight market?

• If your friends get divorced, you could be next in line

  4 Jul 2010: Academic research finds that relationship break-ups within groups of friends can be contagious

• Us and the environment: what the Social Trend Survey says

  2 Jul 2010: ONS report shows recycling and organic farming on the rise, but so are white good energy use and overfishing

• Larger waistlines and a bulging welfare state

  2 Jul 2010:

  Social Trends report shows welfare spending has rocketed among nation living more fragmented existence

  34 comments

• England's identity crisis

  28 Jun 2010: Is there more to English national identity than a hapless football team? Unfortunately, the answer is probably no278 comments

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