A psychologist’s guide to talking to your children about porn
After a report this week revealed that half of children are exposed to online pornography before they leave primary school, parents are being urged to talk to…
Why the secret to enjoying wine starts with a £6.95 corkscrew
Victoria Wood once joked that she didn’t get caravanning. “I don’t understand people who can only have a relaxed holiday if they’re accompanied at all times by…
Fancy a Michelin-starred dinner tonight? You’re in luck
“Over the last three or four days both advance and last-minute cancellations have gone from a trickle to a flood, although thankfully we’ve had very few no…
Parents are fighting a losing battle in the war on porn
I’m not sure at what age squeamishness about sex kicks in but I reckon the po-facery starts round about the point you stop laughing uproariously the moment…
Going home for Christmas? The great Covid conundrum has returned
Ever since Freedom Day on July 19, the unspoken but widely adopted formulation for scientists and health officials is to be agnostic on the subject of restrictions,…
Everything is falling into place for Liz Truss
Ideology is not currently fashionable in the Conservative Party. Boris Johnson was, after all, elected primarily on the deeply pragmatic promise to “Get Brexit Done”, and his…
On vaccine passports, Britain is about to repeat Italy’s mistakes
There has been much debate about their ethical rights and wrongs as we saw with the Tory backbench rebellion against Boris Johnson. But this overlooks the most…
Politically correct social workers won’t accept that some people are just cruel
The innocence and vulnerability of children arouses particular feelings of anger and disgust when we hear about them being harmed. This is magnified when women, often the…
The rise in interest rates has shattered the delusion of the lockdown free lunch
At last! The Bank of England has finally done the right thing and raised interest rates, albeit by such a marginal amount that it is frankly quite…
There is logic to the Medici model of levelling up, but not what Michael Gove thinks
Michael Gove has suggested that the Government needs to recast itself in the mould of the “Medici model” of Renaissance Florence, to achieve its objective of “levelling…
Forget state vs private: it’s selective schools that triumph
It seems that parents who want their children to gain places at Britain’s top universities should think twice before they spend a fortune on private school fees….
Billie Eilish is right: online porn is damaging our children
I’m not sure at what age squeamishness about sex kicks in but I reckon the po-facery starts round about the point you stop laughing uproariously the moment…
Boris Johnson’s travails may not be over
If Boris Johnson was chastened by the revolt of 99 Tory backbenchers the previous evening, he did not show it during the final Prime Minister’s Questions of…
Prof Chris Whitty shows his extraterrestrial quality as he answers MPs’ questions on omicron
It’s beginning to look a lot like the ‘new normal’. Certainly in Portcullis House, anyway, where no fewer than three public health experts were dialling in virtually…
Have we talked ourselves into an unnecessary crisis? The markets think so
Investing is always the art of calculated risk based on imperfect knowledge, and epidemiology is no different. Based on what we know so far, the investible probability…
Even under Dominic Raab’s ‘British Bill of Rights’, Strasbourg reigns supreme
Three months is a long time in politics. Until September, it looked as if Lord Chancellor Robert Buckland would be responsible for leading the first overhaul of…
Get Harrods to lay your Christmas table – for £40,000
The resulting shopping list will include brands available from the Harrods home floor – think statement crystal decanters by Baccarat, elegant flatware by Christofle, Anissa Kermiche candleholders…
Loungewear sales are up 50 per cent – but let’s not succumb to the allure of the tracksuit again
Ultimate fleeceback hoody, £75, David Gandy Wellwear And yet there’s nothing quite like the structure and rigour of a sharp suit, or the crisp rightness of a…
Why turning ‘Winter blonde’ like Kate Winslet is the secret to instant youth
If Omicron wasn’t depressing enough, the dull winter light is turning our skin more dreary by the day. Aside from a cheery shade of blusher, there is…
How, at 54, Nicole Kidman ensures her style never gets boring
The pressure of red carpet dressing is unimaginable. With lenses trained on you from every angle and the success of your look set to be poured over…
Why has Succession’s Shiv Roy become so badly dressed?
So how and why has Shiv’s transformed from chic to bleak so fast? A simple but unsatisfactory explanation would be that this happened somehow by accident. That…
Olaf Scholz sparks a China crisis for Volkswagen
“Germany had what China needed and wanted when they started industrialisation in the ’80s,” says Hanns-Günther Hilpert, head of Asia research at the German Institute for International…
‘Undisputed home’ of Bloody Mary celebrates 100 years of classic cocktail
Mr MacElhone’s great-grandson, Franz-Arthur, 33, and the current owner said the Bloody Mary remained the bar’s most popular drink. “We serve around 12,000 of the per year,”…
Turks fleeing repressive Erdogan regime ‘are being forced back across border by Greece’
The number of Turkish asylum seekers illegally sent back home by Greek border officials has risen dramatically amid a surge in migration fuelled by President Recep Tayyip…
North Korea bans laughing for 11 days of mourning for 10th anniversary of Kim Jong-il’s death
Mourning periods for Kim Jong-il and his father Kim Il-sung, considered to be the father of the nation, are observed annually. Ordinarily, these periods last ten days,…