Where do you actually stand?

Short reads with real questions inside. Vote as you go — see the room's split the moment you have.

money

The bill arrives. Everybody goes quiet.

Splitting the bill is never about the bill. It is a tiny referendum on class, generosity and who ordered the lobster.

 religion

Would you lie to your kids about Santa?

Most of us were raised on a benevolent lie. Whether to pass it on is a stranger question than it looks.

 science

Your brain wants to believe in magic

Cognitive science says superstition is not a bug in human thinking — it is a feature that never switched off.

 relationships

Their phone is unlocked on the table. Do you look?

Nearly everyone says snooping is wrong. Rather fewer have never done it.

 food

Ketchup lives in the cupboard and other wars

Domestic food rules are the last acceptable battleground of absolutely rigid personal conviction.