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Perhaps the reason the story of the French Parkinson’s sufferer who learned to walk again with the aid of a spinal implant that sends impulses to...
For all her bluster and chutzpah, my mother was a tender-hearted wee thing who cried at the drop of a hat. On the rare occasions she heard a rendition...
Sometimes, images from war zones become such an unbearable sea of pain that individual faces are secondary to the sheer communal disaster of it all....
The word has been running round my head now for months and months, like a tune I can’t get rid of. Gaslighting. Outside my window, winter darkness...
When King Charles delivers his first King’s Speech to parliament next week, it will include details of the new criminal justice bill. Ministers have...
In The Long Shadow, the television dramatisation of the notorious north of England murders by Peter Sutcliffe in the 1970s, what emerges clearly is...
It is, for sure, easy to snigger at the recent BBC Scotland documentary series The Firm, featuring Scottish human rights lawyer, Aamer Anwar. Anwar,...
One winter night, aged about 15, I waited at the bus stop opposite my house, en route to ballet class. A man began talking. Where was I going? What...
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Teaching poetry to teenagers can be a tricky business. In school sessions, I used to choose poems that captured strong emotions young people might...
Everyone loves a story. Here is one about a relationship. In this story, one partner holds more power than the other. Their superior strength inclines...
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If you open a can of Scotch broth, you don’t expect chicken soup to slide glutinously into the pan. It is what is says on the tin. Unsurprising,...
After she died, this person I loved, her house changed instantly. I associated it with warmth, but when we gathered there, it felt cold. The sitting...
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The Anniversary: a royal drama. Scene one: It is one year since the matriarch’s death, and The Family have gathered for their annual holiday at the...
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What was the moment, I wonder, when Richard Walker, executive chairman of Iceland frozen food – a company specialising in such yummy delights as...
Interviewing interviewers is a tricky business: you can’t kid a kidder, as they say. Gyles Brandreth, for example, was hilariously ebullient to the...
I cannot help noticing that those who urge us not to fight ageing, but instead embrace grey hairs and support stockings with charm and good grace, may...
I await with bated breath the next instalment of what must surely develop into a series in The Times newspaper. It kicked off last week with a front...
As we speak, Housing Secretary Michael Gove should be somewhere on a Greek island, lapping up moussaka and retsina – assuming, of course, that...
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It is impossible to visit the picturesque Perthshire village of Kenmore, on the banks of Loch Tay, without sensing history. The village square is...
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The wonderful thing about the French Football Federation’s advert for the Women’s World Cup, which begins on July 21, is that it reaches – to...
There has been, in the coverage of the BBC cash for photographs scandal this week, the distinct whiff of schadenfreude from Tory politicians who...
Rakesh Singh lives in the slums of Kalighat, the red-light district of Kolkata, India. At 13, he contends with big issues; he has seen life already....
One of the dilemmas facing tortured philosophers is how to prove we are actually alive, which only proves that philosophers are people who, if they...
The rose bushes were gone. In the baking city heat, scraggy tufts of scorched grass sprawled through concrete where the lawn had once been. The...
When confronted by wildlife videos in which some hapless animal – perhaps powerful in its own kingdom – gets surrounded by predators, I look away...
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It’s pretty obvious that actor Johnny Depp’s celebrity portraits are rubbish, because you know instantly who they are meant to be. Not a good...
When historian Dr David Starkey told me that his wonderful but monstrous mother “crawled over people like a caterpillar”, I couldn’t help...
Actor Tom Hanks’s observation this week that artificial intelligence (AI) creates the potential for him to appear in films long after he is dead is...