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by Stoker   Last month we refused to predict the winner of the American Presidential election, and the reader, looking between the lines,...

Three years ago my wife’s step-father needed to have 24-hour care in the Cotswolds cottage where he and my mother-in-law lived. However...

If you choose sweet, you’ll be eating Ipomea batatas. A similarly shaped but different tasting vegetable to Solanum tuberosum, the common...

My Only Connect colleague Michael Carberry and I have never met. I’m sure that were we to do so we would find we had lots in common...

The first language I gave up on was my mother tongue, or rather my mother’s tongue: German. I’m 4 years old riding in the back of a...