The past sometimes intrudes upon the present in curious and unexpected ways. Last week, on SBS, the irresistible and irrepressible…

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‘The nuisance of the tropics is/the sheer necessity of fizz.’  Over the past few days, during which England endured sub-tropical…

God, men are pathetic. At least, that’s the view of Angelica Puzio Ferrara, a researcher at Stanford, who has come…

Q. My husband and I have recently made very good friends with some neighbours in France. They know I am…

For the past 25 years I have commuted to London from Otford, a delightful village outside Sevenoaks. I do this…

The FT headline said: ‘Man Group orders quants back to office five days a week.’ I didn’t know what quants…

Dante’s Beach, Ravenna I often feel as if I know what it was like to be a member of La…

A few years ago, a friend wrote a cookery book for the UK market, full of gorgeous dishes, many of…

For Competition 3405 you were invited to submit a scene in which Doctor Who has regenerated into someone very unexpected.…

‘I want the stairlift to go faster!’ said my mother, as the machine she was sitting on whirred furiously while…