I recently saw, for the second time, the National Theatre production of 'Amadeus'. I say for the second time because I saw the original...

This morning I was watching the Winter Olympics and marvelling, as I am sure we all were, at the staggering achievements of the figure...

In my last post on 'Celebrity Weight Loss' (29 January 2018) I explored the relationship between weight loss and two important hormones...

All the celebrities seem to be at it - losing weight, that is. Tom Kerridge has lost 12 stone whilst Gordon Ramsay trumpets that he has...

Well ? How are those resolutions going ? You may have decided upon a serious target for 2018, be it losing weight, giving up smoking,...

January, as every schoolboy knows, is named after Janus, the Roman god with two faces who could look forwards to the future as well as...

Christmas is nearly here, but first we have to get past the shortest, and darkest, day. The idea of Christmas as a light in the darkness...

The news this evening included a report about Little Foot, one of the oldest and most complete skeletons of our ancestors found in the...

It's now a month until Christmas. In the church cycle of the year we are in the season of Advent, the season of waiting for Christmas....

It's been an unusually mild November (until now), with the result that earlier this week I was actually mowing the lawn, but before doing...

Christmas is on its way, and food, and pictures of food, seem to be all around. Every shop window seems stuffed with beautifully...

So tonight, we start again the circus of I'm a Celebrity that seems to mark, in our new calendar of the seasons, the beginning of the...