Quinn Tan

Health advice aimed at women is still mostly either about being thinner or about having children, and it is genuinely st…

It has shifted fast in the last decade, and the shift is mostly happening outside the places that give official advice.

Within fifty years ageing will be treated as a condition rather than a fact, and the argument will move to who can affor…

Some of it already is. Nobody calls cataract surgery anti-ageing medicine and that is exactly what it is.

Every restaurant is too loud now and I refuse to accept it is just me getting old.

Some of it is genuinely hearing. Mine went at about forty and I only noticed because I could no longer follow a table of six.

Weddings have got completely out of hand and everybody involved seems to be having a worse time than they would at a dec…

Depends whose expectations are being met. Almost every excessive wedding I have been to was excessive because of somebody's parents.

Term limits, everywhere, no exceptions. Nobody should be able to build a forty-year career out of a job that was meant t…

The counterargument assumes expertise accumulates. Mostly what accumulates is obligation.

Polarisation gets the blame, but the lasting damage from social media might be flattening — every subject arrives at the…

The format is the argument. A genocide and a football transfer get the same card, the same buttons, and forty seconds each, and after a while your sense of proportion just goes.

Small talk gets a terrible press, mostly from people who have never had to sit next to a stranger for two hours.

It is the protocol handshake. Skipping it does not make you direct, it makes you unreadable.

Honestly think the four-day week debate is mostly people who already have autonomy arguing about the calendar, while eve…

The trials that included shift work did fine, they just got less coverage because the result was boring — people were less tired.