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As I lay face-down in my birthday-suit, greased in Argan oil, my Gluteus very Maximus being worked like it’s never been worked before, my masseuse

I have always been acutely aware of the ageing process. However there’s never been a milestone age which has had too detrimental an impact on

To be fair, all things being equal, the fact of the matter is there are no easy answers. The jury is out on this one,

My name is James Nelson and  I play Lotto. Not every draw you understand, never “Monday Millions” or EuroMillions, just your average common-or-garden Lotto on

In the New Year, along with half the population of Ireland, Jim joined a gym. Up until now Jim’s exercise consisted of walking and swimming,

We all harbour individual memories of what makes Christmas ‘Christmassy’, whether it be carols, fairy lights, shop windows, plum pudding, brandy butter, or a bracing

“No-one is born hating another person, because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and

As I weaved my way through the corridors, ashen-faced zombified creatures attired in shell-suits brushed by me, their glazed eyes dead to the world. I

“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings : it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity” (William Wordsworth). According to Stephen Fry in

There are situations in our supposedly civilized world in which a child should simply not be found, under any circumstances. No child should find themselves