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Nerves. Awkward small talk. Ghosting. I had hoped all that rubbish was behind me when I married my husband.As it turns out, making new friends as an adult is just as…

What a strange country this is, where the King can pardon a long-dead killer, Ruth Ellis, while a living, breathing woman, Lucy Letby, convicted in a dubious case that…

We have become a nation of procrastinators, a ‘procrasti-nation’, if you like. So says Dr Itamar Shatz, a social scientist at Cambridge University, and who am I to…

Tangled and grey at the back of a drawer, the weird, alien devices stared wanly up at me. As so often happens when you try to clear out your loft, I was forced to stop…

All over the democratic world, the mainstream parties of the centre-Left and centre-Right are desperately looking for the antidote to the populist Left and Right –…

Jackie Kennedy always intrigued me. When I was young, the First Lady’s every appearance and utterance guaranteed acres of coverage in newspapers and magazines.After…