Consumer theory examines how consumers allocate income and make purchasing decisions. All economic activity takes place within the context of limitations. Consumers, therefore, need to make trade-offs ...

Do you suffer from parallelophobia? If you deal with an irrational fear of parallel parking, you're not alone. Nearly half of all Americans suffer from this condition, and in Britain, many would ...

Parking is not always an easy task. Sometimes spots are too tight, too small or positioned strangely — not to mention the potential obstacles hindering your perfect parking, like other vehicles, trees ...

If you drive a car built since 2018, a rearview camera came standard, but they actually started popping up as options on cars more than a decade before that. And while many early examples were ...

More than 600,000 teenagers have been opening GCSE and other Level 2 results on Thursday. Most have just finished Year 11, marking the end of a secondary school journey that began in Covid "bubbles" ...

Horizontal lines run left to right, parallel to the horizon, with slope 0 and equation y = k. Vertical lines run top to bottom, perpendicular to the horizon, with undefined slope and equation x = k.

Parallel parking tends to strike fear in new drivers. It's one of the common mistakes that cause people to fail their driving test. But once you know the steps, it's a skill you can rely on every day, ...

You probably already know what rizz is. Maybe you’ve got it. Maybe your new situationship thinks they do. But for anyone just catching up—or for the people reading this to understand modern slang—rizz ...

“I think that maybe it’s not two circles but one,” says Sebastian, the protagonist of Edward St Aubyn’s scintillating new novel Parallel Lines to his newly discovered sister, Olivia. They are looking ...

Death, psychosis, apocalypse — it’s a strong mixture for a novel. In the hands of a writer less capable than Edward St Aubyn, it would probably add up to a fatal dose for a book that you were actually ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Therapist Martin Carr is in a quandary. He has learnt that a new patient, Carmen, is already known to his ...