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We all suffer ‘old age’ ailments – that doesn’t mean we all need a scan

16 December 2017 9:00 am

Memory, neuroscientists tell us, is fallible. It is a dynamic process whereby each time we remember something, it will be…

Ruth Davidson on politics, power and a possible move south

16 December 2017 9:00 am

‘You wouldn’t make good spies, would you,’ chuckles Ruth Davidson as she finds us sitting with our backs to the…

Sarah Vine, Prue Leith and Jilly Cooper on their most convincing ghost story

16 December 2017 9:00 am

  Anthony Horowitz  Novelist   I have never really believed in ghosts, but I actually had a personal experience which…

China’s new way to drown out the Christmas message? A sea of tat

16 December 2017 9:00 am

If you think capitalism has blinged up Christmas, you should see what the Communists are doing to it. At this…

Even if we could create genius ‘designer’ babies, there’s no demand for them

16 December 2017 9:00 am

Christmas Day marks the birthday of one of the most gifted human beings ever born. His brilliance was of a…

Rolling tanks, plastic flowers and madness on parade: A visit to North Korea

16 December 2017 9:00 am

As Kim Jong-un might blow up the world next year, if not this, and people are forever trying to work…

Field Marshal Lord Bramall on why we should use force for peace

16 December 2017 9:00 am

It is always a delight to drive the country roads of Hampshire to see the man known throughout the army…

Order, order! In the Commons, you are where you sit

16 December 2017 9:00 am

Diet nannies will spend Christmas telling us ‘you are what you eat’ but in the House of Commons ‘you are…

Prue Leith: Everyone’s waiting for me to make another Bake Off gaffe

16 December 2017 9:00 am

Edinburgh is a peach of a city, is it not? Last week, I walked up to the castle on a…

Forman smokes wild salmon, too — for a price

Why smoked salmon doesn’t taste anything like it should

16 December 2017 9:00 am

I’m just about old enough to remember when smoked salmon was a rare treat. Then, around 1986 or 1987, suddenly…

Illustrated by Carolyn Gowdy

A Christmas ghost story: Here We Come A-Wassailing by Andrew Michael Hurley

16 December 2017 9:00 am

 Andrew Michael Hurley’s debut novel, The Loney, is an unsettling gothic horror story set on a bleak stretch of the…

The Brexit Breakdown

9 December 2017 9:00 am

Theresa May’s Brexit challenge is truly Herculean. Every time she believes she has done enough to finally move the Brexit…

Does Brexit mean anything anymore?

9 December 2017 9:00 am

Emma Bridgewater has, since 1985, produced pottery acceptable in tasteful middle-class kitchens. Some jars had Coffee on and some Biscuits.…

Harry, Meghan and the irresistible rise of the glamocracy

9 December 2017 9:00 am

The world may be dazzled by Prince Harry marrying a divorced, mixed-race American TV star. But his grand friends and…

Welcome to the age of media feeding frenzies

9 December 2017 9:00 am

Tony Blair once remarked, during one of the periodic feeding frenzies that engulf British politics, that public life was becoming…

‘The first 100 days will be radical’ – John McDonnell on the Corbyn coup and its consequences

9 December 2017 9:00 am

John McDonnell looks exhausted, slumped in his parliamentary office chair. Nobody said the revolution would be easy. Do he and…

Why is China sending aid money to Surrey?

9 December 2017 9:00 am

When I first hear that my well-heeled Surrey neighbourhood is receiving aid from China, I assume it must be a…

Meet the anti-immigrant federalist who could well be Italy’s next prime minister

9 December 2017 9:00 am

The man who could become Italy’s next prime minister is sat just opposite the entrance to the huge US and…

The Watford Locks on the Grand Union Canal

The truth about The Watford Gap

9 December 2017 9:00 am

In a shallow dip between two unremarkable Northamptonshire hills you will find a road, a motorway, a railway and a…

Why marriage is increasingly for the royals – and the rich

2 December 2017 9:00 am

Whatever their views about the monarchy, most people will warm to the news of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s engagement.…

Is a Princess Meghan really such good news?

2 December 2017 9:00 am

‘The thing is,’ said my friend, after the broadcast of the engagement interview with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, ‘you…

David Trimble: The Irish government is dragging Brexit into dangerous territory 

2 December 2017 9:00 am

When I negotiated the Good Friday Agreement nearly 20 years ago, no one foresaw a day when the -United Kingdom…

George Blake, the spy who stayed out in the cold

2 December 2017 9:00 am

I suspect George Blake, the MI6 officer turned KGB double agent, would enjoy toddling over to the Hampstead Theatre to…

We’re all poorer for the loss of our small rail lines

2 December 2017 9:00 am

To me, the strange words ‘Marsh Gibbon’ once meant I was nearly home. My heart lifted as we creaked and…

What Katie didn’t do: how Hopkins was silenced in Lewes

2 December 2017 9:00 am

I had an all-day ticket for the Lewes Speakers Festival at the All Saints Centre on Saturday. I was keen…