Coming home from work late one evening last September, my husband Tim stormed straight upstairs to the spare room without so much as a hello. I followed to ask what was wrong. Our relationship had been fractious for months, but there was no specific cause for fury that I knew …...Read More

Visiting the local health centre when you have a serious ailment is worrying at the best of times. But your fear might well be exacerbated if you learnt that the medic about to treat you was called Dr Coffin. On the other hand, it could be reassuring to know the …...Read More

Someone in Whitehall must have been watching the 1976 sci-fi movie Logan's Run, starring Michael York and Jenny Agutter. The film is set in a dystopian future where everyone is killed when they reach 30. It's the kind of radical, outside-the-box policy which would probably appeal to a blue-skies thinker …...Read More

That's it. Furlough is over, at least as far as my company is concerned. I am not prepared to contribute to a culture where people sit at home and do nothing. As the founder of Pimlico Plumbers, London's largest independent plumbing company, I've heard all the excuses – people are …...Read More

A troupe of clog dancers known as the ‘Coco-nutters’ have been kicked out of the national morris dancing organisation for refusing to stop blacking up their faces. Critics have accused them of being racist and claimed their painted faces could cause ‘deep hurt’ to black people. But members of the …...Read More

A common diabetes drug could slash the risk of developing dementia, a major trial suggests. Experts believe that, in time, it could be given to anyone at risk of developing the illness. An international study of 15,800 people with diabetes, led by Exeter University, suggests a daily jab called liraglutide …...Read More

An animal lover has railed against a local council for fining her £120 after she fed crumbs of her Greggs vegan sausage roll to pigeons. Kerris Fenn, 22, tore up the last mouthful of her lunch and scattered it for the birds after they 'sweetly' gathered around her in Manchester …...Read More

Facebook on Monday agreed to lease all the office space in the mammoth 107-year-old James A. Farley Building in Midtown Manhattan, cementing New York City as a growing global technology hub and reaffirming a major corporation’s commitment to an office-centric urban culture despite the pandemic. With the 730,000-square-foot lease, Facebook …...Read More

WASHINGTON — President Trump abruptly announced on Monday the firing of two members of the Tennessee Valley Authority’s board of directors and demanded that the electric utility’s chief executive reverse what he said was a decision to outsource workers to other countries. The president’s announcement came during a White House …...Read More

WASHINGTON — In making an end run around Congress to appoint Anthony J. Tata, a retired brigadier general with a history of Islamophobic and other inflammatory views, to a top Defense Department post, President Trump has once again put the military exactly where it does not want to be: in …...Read More