When the pandemic hit last spring, Mr James Routledge experienced some familiar symptoms. Anxiety. Stress. A nagging sense that life hadn’t turned out the way he dreamed. As the CEO of Sanctus, a company that advises businesses on mental health strategy, he was all too familiar with these signs of burnout. He had seen hundreds of professionals floored by the demands of “hustle culture”. And he had actually been there himself before. After founding his first business, a social network for sports fans, at 21, he shut it down three years later after struggling from working in a hustle culture which led to anxiety and panic attacks.

After a year of getting intimate with delivery apps, eating out is on again and the world is a far better place for it. While our collective appetite for communal dining means securing reservations at our favourite restaurants has become as hard as scoring Coachella tickets, there’s no shortage of exciting new venues to explore. Negotiating the events of the past 12 months has given chefs and restaurateurs an opportunity to plot their next move and, after a year of shelved plans and shuttered venues, our cities are starting to witness a renaissance in the dining sector.

Single dad Barrie has just taken part in a group chat facilitated by Fathers Network Scotland, a charity that provides much-needed support to struggling fathers and their families. “I enjoyed it,” he says of the session, “but learning that a guy had taken his own life a couple of weeks ago was hard-hitting. Men need more help.” That much has become abundantly clear over the past few months. Men’s mental health was already in crisis before the pandemic took hold, a truth underlined by the shocking statistic that suicide is the biggest killer of men under 50 in the UK.

An unhinged football season of empty stadiums, crashed Range Rovers, goal-scoring armpits and Leeds United deserves a competition advertised with the wrong date to punctuate its end. And so, we look forward to Euro 2020 with feverish (slightly delayed) anticipation. What will happen? No one knows, especially this year (or should we say last year?) and least of all, us. None of which has stopped us compiling this list of 10 very serious predictions for what might occur in the multi-city-hosted tournament, which kicks off this weekend. In all, 24 teams (including nations unaccustomed to life at the top table, such as North Macedonia, Finland and, it says here, Scotland) will play for a shot at taking home the Henri Delaunay Trophy. Whether you’re a diehard football (yes, Americans, we mean soccer) fan or you’re looking for clothes and you clicked the wrong link, there’s something for everyone.

When the pandemic hit last spring, Mr James Routledge experienced some familiar symptoms. Anxiety. Stress. A nagging sense that life hadn’t turned out the way he dreamed. As the CEO of Sanctus, a company that advises businesses on mental health strategy, he was all too familiar with these signs of burnout. He had seen hundreds of professionals floored by the demands of “hustle culture”. And he had actually been there himself before. After founding his first business, a social network for sports fans, at 21, he shut it down three years later after struggling from working in a hustle culture which led to anxiety and panic attacks.

After a year of getting intimate with delivery apps, eating out is on again and the world is a far better place for it. While our collective appetite for communal dining means securing reservations at our favourite restaurants has become as hard as scoring Coachella tickets, there’s no shortage of exciting new venues to explore. Negotiating the events of the past 12 months has given chefs and restaurateurs an opportunity to plot their next move and, after a year of shelved plans and shuttered venues, our cities are starting to witness a renaissance in the dining sector.