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For decades I accepted what sitcoms and soaps told me: that groups of like-minded people form and stay together effortlessly. Now the former Friend has told it like it is, writes Guardian columnist Emma Beddington

Far from being friendly, like ‘love’, ‘duck’ and ‘hen’, the term is faux-matey with an edge of covert aggression, writes Emma Beddington

I have unbridled lust when faced with a buffet – as do many others. But penalties for overfilling our plates are only one possible answer, writes Emma Beddington

Are you going to spend the next three months laser-focused on your goals? Or will you, like me, be faceplanting like an anaesthetised owl?, writes Emma Beddington

So the late queen mother’s handbag was empty all along. Proof again, if we needed it, that the royals are not like us at all, writes Emma Beddington

Forget blue zones, superfoods and hi-tech rejuvenation therapies: study after study suggests our dreams of immortality will never come true. But maybe that’s just the kick in the pants humanity needs, writes Emma Beddington

I’m nearly 50 and my hobby is sitting. Why did I decide to attempt a strange version of the handstand, writes Emma Beddington

It’s almost 30 years since I lost my hair to alopecia. What if Pfizer’s drug Litfulo could bring it back? asks Guardian columnist Emma Beddington

Demi Moore’s gory satire The Substance made me think about self-image, bodily autonomy – and our worrying obsession with cosmetic surgery, writes Emma Beddington