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During World War II, the RAF were losing a lot of planes to anti-aircraft guns. When they studied the planes that came back from missions, they noticed some areas tended to have more bullet holes than others. So they decided to make sure any new planes were reinforced in those areas.

The language of politics is heating up. Does the Prime Minister using phrases like 'surrender bill'* coarsen public debate?

You're turning down plastic knives and forks at Pret. You're putting your recycling into the right bin at home. You're carrying a water bottle wherever you go. Yup, like most of us, you're probably doing your part to solve the plastic crisis.

On the 20th of June, just as Michael Gove slunk off into political obscurity, we launched our Language & Behaviour Club. Clearly the big news of the day.

I bought some veg from Ant and Dec over the weekend. Well, not directly from them. They’ve lent their voices to M&S’s self-checkout machines. But what they definitely haven’t lent M&S is their personality.

What’s with the latest generation of brand buzzwords?

You might’ve heard it on the news or seen them on the shelves; Waitrose are re-releasing their chocolate avocado for Easter. It looks like this.

Growing up, I hated getting feedback on my writing (whether it was something I’d written for school or the latest story I was making up).  I’d got it into my head that I had to do absolutely everything myself and that getting help was ‘cheating’. I was convinced you could either write well or you[...]

It's Grand National weekend again, which means it's time for us to use some ever-so-slightly spurious behavioural science to help you choose a horse that's been underrated by the bookies.