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With reports of pills containing less than 50 per cent of MDMA last year, we look into this year’s supplies as the summer festivals kick off.

Ickbait: If you use words like “oomf” or post selfies with people you don’t know, Daisy Jones is logging off.

Hinge got your head spinning? In tears over Tinder? Put your dating app woes to bed with these tips.

From Bitcoins to blockchains, we’ve broken down all your crypto queries in this handy guide.

Ickbait: The question is very revealing – in a bad way, says Kemi Alemoru.

Your familial wealth isn’t something you’d normally think about when boning. But it does have an impact on where, when and how we shag.

Wanna get zen via blue light? A happier, healthier and more mindful life is, supposedly, one finger tap away.

Beyond the Prets, Soho’s red-lit underbelly still lives and breathes amongst its storied streets. But which store sells the best pornos, butt plugs or, er, weapons of ass destruction? THE FACE finds out.

You can try to resist Mark Zuckerberg’s dead-eyed insistence but there’s no escape from the metaverse. Your physical life is being swallowed by your digital life. Is it possible to avoid upgrading your human operating system?

Break-ups are tough, but they’re even harder when the relationship leaves you with trauma. The good news? Those feelings don’t last forever. Here’s how to put yourself back together.

Ickbait: “I can’t see a man tuck into a turkey dinosaur and still fancy him,” says Beth Ashley.

With more games now played on phones than on PCs and consoles combined, surprisingly the crypto world is yet to develop a game that can earn you bitcoins. Here’s why.

Ickbait: Loving London’s new train service? Harrison Brocklehurst is getting off at the next stop.

“Cancelling on a cheap park date over money was horrifically embarrassing.”

Jack Grealish’s other sporting life: as a teenager, he played Gaelic football for an historic Irish sports club in the Midlands. We went there to meet the coaches who remember the “natural”, and the kids who aspire to be him – even the ones from the Blue side of Birmingham. Well, some of them.

Ickbait: Your “ick” says more about you than it does about them, says Hannah Ewens.

Street art, hammocks, anything made out of bamboo. As Clive Martin found on a recent trip to Mexico, influencing is no longer just for the pros. It's now the standard model for travellers.

Ickbait: Grace Medford weighs in on the skin slit that’s the “ultimate crush killer”.

Ickbait: Lauren O’Neill dissects “one of the most heinous practices in British nightlife”.

Widely used as a protesting tool thanks to its encrypted messaging capabilities, party organisers are increasingly using the platform to put on secret DIY raves, recreating all the thrill, hedonism and anonymity of the acid house days.

Made popular by the women of Love Island, before resurfacing via TikTok and reaching regular Twitter virality, the term is all about pushing back against the annoying men in our lives. But what do the lads think about it all?

The dating phenomenon, from which there is apparently no return, may actually be hurting our love lives.

Generation Covid: to end our week of stories, the Labour MP for Nottingham East and the “baby of the House” talks archaic institutions, the power of movements and why the UK needs an irreversible shift in wealth and power.