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Phil Daoust

Phil Daoust is joint deputy editor for G2

June 2024

  • Phil Daoust, holding an ice-cream cone, reclines in a deckchair in the park in the sunshine

    Fit for ever
    Do be a quitter! How I broke my exercise streak – and smashed my fitness goals

  • Phil Daoust with his staffie cross Sienna.

    Fit for ever
    The loneliness trap: it is said to be as bad as smoking. So will it shorten my lifespan?

  • A bald man in his sixties (Phil Daoust), wearing a T-shirt, shorts and trainers, sitting on the floor pulling on resistance bands around his feet

    Today in Focus
    How to live to 100

  • Phil Daoust sitting in Norwood Park.

    Fit for ever
    Never write yourself off! 25 things I’ve learned about getting fit – after almost 60 years of sloth

May 2024

  • Phil Daoust has his brain scanned.

    Fit for ever
    Keep forgetting things? Worried about your brain? Here’s what I learned when I had mine scanned

  • John Starbrook plays water polo. Hampton. London. Photograph by David Levene 28/4/24

    Fit for ever
    He’s 93, he’s run 52 marathons and he’s in the gym six days a week: can this man teach us how to age well?

April 2024

  • David Harewood portrait

    Weekend
    ‘I was hammered on stage’ – David Harewood on racism and success; John Crace on ‘tetchy’ Rishi; the answer to insomnia hell; and Baby Reindeer fall out – podcast

    Beware of ‘Tetchy Rishi’ – the prime minister struggles to control his anger during the Rwanda bill press briefing; David Harewood on acting, racism and mental health; the surprisingly simple solution to insomnia hell; and the dangerous fallout from Netflix’s Baby Reindeer
  • Phil Daoust, covered in electrodes for his polysomnogram.

    Fit for ever
    My insomnia hell: sleeplessness is a curse – but I think I finally have the answer

    Pills, meditation, yoga, sleep restriction ... I have tried absolutely everything to get some proper rest. Is the solution actually surprisingly simple?
  • Fit For ever: why is muscle so important as you get old WEB

    Fit for ever
    The muscle miracle: can I build enough in my 60s to make it to 100 – even though I’ve never weight-trained?

    To live a long and healthy life, you need plenty of muscle. But we all start losing it in our 50s. Can a 60-year-old man build himself up – and maybe even get a little ripped?

March 2024

  • G2 Fit forever - Can I live to 100? Phil Daoust Column

    Fit for ever
    I’m 60 – and want to live to 100. Will my years of drinking and inactivity be a problem?

    Can a late convert to wellbeing undo decades of beer and barbecues? In the first of a new series, Phil Daoust has a health MOT – and gets some worrying news about his heart

September 2023

  • Glenn the border collie - in the Vosges - with a Frisbee in 2007

    The pet I'll never forget
    The pet I’ll never forget: Glenn was a funny, barky dream of a dog. Then one day he just wasn’t there

    Ours was a friendship cut short by a mystery. Decades later, I still miss that border collie

February 2023

  • ‘A silly voice and a few good songs’ … Tim Minchin in 2005, the year of the offending one-star review.

    Punched, insulted and excoriated in song … our critics on the artists who hit back

    In a shocking attack, the ballet director Marco Goecke smeared dog excrement in the face of Wiebke Hüster in retaliation for her review. Yet it isn’t the first time an artist has assaulted a critic. Our writers share their worst moments

August 2021

  • Phil Daoust

    Hot summer nights
    Hot summer nights: ‘In my lonely shack I’d hear footsteps and think of axe murderers’

    I fell hard for life in the Vosges in France. But when it got dark I couldn’t help being spooked by every rustle, bark and footstep I heard. Then a night drinking outside changed everything

April 2020

  • Phil Daoust poses in his garden in the forest of Vosges in eastern France.

    The sadness of lockdown
    'The joy was leaking out of my life': I became depressed living alone – talking to a friend saved me

    When he went to live in isolation by choice, Phil Daoust initially felt he was enjoying his best life. Then he realised something had changed drastically

March 2020

  • Bronwen Griffiths’ tree in Worcestershire.

    Tree of the week
    Special branches: readers on the trees that changed their lives

    We stand under them, propose next to them … or simply gaze in awe at their grandeur. When we asked readers to tell us about their favourite trees they responded in droves

October 2019

  • Friends at a Christmas market

    Five ways
    Five ways to fight the winter blues

    It is common to feel your spirits fall as the nights draw in. Even if this turns into full-blown seasonal affective disorder, there are steps you can take to improve your mood

January 2019

  • Lunch is served ... but is it welcome?

    The new rules of eating al desko

  • Phil Daoust with Jenny Tomei.

    Get better for 2019
    Sprinting, fartlek and Romanian deadlifts – how to get better at running

November 2018

  • ‘About a quarter with winter blues develop the extreme form known as seasonal affective disorder.’

    Winter blues? A practical guide to getting more light in your life

    As the nights draw in, it is all too easy to let lack of daylight get the better of us. But there are plenty of ways to stay one step ahead of the darkness

October 2018

  • Sourdough bread, leavened with naturally occurring rather than commercial yeast.

    Shortcuts
    Supermarket sourdough is often sourfaux – here’s how to make the real thing

    Mass-produced sourdough has been found to be adulterated with everything from vinegar to commercial yeast. Why not bake your own?
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