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Age & longevity: The problems of living too long!
Long term care retirement and pensions, Tony Page argues that this really is the stuff that strikes are made of. Read More...
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Cameron's Kingdom - Whatever next?
Recent PR gaffes and the politically damaging Leveson Inquiry have led to dismal local election results and rumblings about the vision and directio... Read More...
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The Duchess of Malfi
Jealousy, madness, bloodshed and betrayal make a potent brew in John Webster’s electrifying Jacobean tragedy The Duchess of Malfi, revived in a com... Read More...
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Can exercise stop mental decline?
NHS Behind the Headlines looks at the facts behinds the attention grabbing tabloid health stories. Read More...
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'Not a fit person' to run major company! Murdoch conclusions
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Running round the May Polls - so much pleasure how can I cope!Local elections, Mayoral elections, a French Presidential election and a Diamond Jubilee - there's plenty to digest this month. Who do you want to see in and out of office?
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Leveson: Murdoch woes threaten to span AtlanticRupert and James Murdoch return to face the Leveson Inquiry with the threat of legal action against News Corp growing stronger in the US.
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Retired – get ready for the new world order!When you were slogging away at your job did you fantasise about your retirement?
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New Planning Rules - rape, rape cried the chorus!The Tories really need a shake up and get their act together! Are they totally ignorant of the needs, thoughts and opinions of the people who keep them in power!
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Onwards, into the valley of death they rode!Bankia rescued by government of Spain as Eurozone countries flirt with disaster once again.
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Film Review - '50/50'Boy gets cancer in director Jonathon Levene's latest offering. But does hilarity ensue?
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Theatre Review - 'Absent Friends'Welcome to a tea party you’ll never forget as Alan Ayckbourn’s insightful comedy of manners and social embarrassment, Absent Friends, returns to the West End (Harold Pinter Theatre) in a fine new p...
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Theatre Review – 'The Ladykillers'Graham Linehan's adaptation of the Ealing Comedy classic is a risk, but he and director Sean Foley have come up with their own laudable new version of The Ladykillers (Gielgud Theatre)
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Art Review - Lucian Freud PortraitsLucian Freud's art retains its power to inspire and reveal as this exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery shows
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Olympic torch relay - one of the chosenI'm carrying the Olympic torch and need to get in training
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Health & Wellbeing
The Elderly & the NHS – Delivering Dignity?The first draft of the Delivering Dignity report meets the press, and neither side comes off well
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Health & Wellbeing
'The Fitness Book' – unfit for purposeThis new 'female-friendly' exercise book demonstrates everything that is wrong with sex and class in today's society
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Diagnosis: NaggingPlans to make NHS staff quiz patients about their lifestyles reflect a patronising, self-defeating arrogance not just on the part of politicians, but the medical profession itself
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Cancer - The right aim, the wrong approachesNew research claims that lifestyle changes can prevent cancer, but falls into the usual trap of moral hectoring, undermining any useful contribution it could make
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How to add life to your life!I've found the solution to insomnia and discovered the pleasures of a nocturnal cup of tea, reading and box set DVDs.
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Home & Leisure
Toxic fun on Britain's beachesBecause it's not a proper holiday without sewage or bitter complaints about sewage. Staycation, anyone?
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Salute 2011 - games without frontiersAlexander Hay has a day out with the tabletop generals at the popular yearly wargames event
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30 Things you can do now that you'd never dream of doing when you were youngA few years ago a friend’s son very considerately decided to marry an Australian girl he’d met in London. What was considerate was the fact that the young couple decided on down-under nuptials thus...
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2011 London Drinker Beer & Cider Festival - the lowdownBeer, more beer and cider is given a thorough review and then some at this year's instalment of the CAMRA boozefest
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Foxed againDespite the media furore, urban foxes continue to win both new ground and the PR war
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Money & Finance
Budget 2012 - the post mortemSo what should we take away from yesterday's budget?
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Double-Dip ahoyAs recession nears again, we should shed our old illusions
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Downward Spiral, UK - Our economy goes down the plughole, while the government starves it with ideologically driven cuts'Storm-battered' may be an over-used cliche, but that doesn't stop it being an appropriate metaphor for the UK right now
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Nick Clegg and the incredible shrinking pensionsJust in time for Christmas, the Deputy Prime Minister announces means-testing for pensioners' benefits, threatening more red tape, intrusion and poverty for the elderly
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SIPP suckersSerious Fraud Squad estimates £32million in Self Invested Pension Plans at risk after investors place faith in slick sales promises of high returns.
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Relationships
Care standards: How do we solve the problem of elder care?In spite of ever more older people needing home or residential care, the British public seems unwilling to foot the bill or take steps to safeguard themselves in later life
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Women with jobs apparently don't have sexCareer women are dull, whereas unemployed women have all the fun, if not all the money - or so the reports say
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Women prefer miserable menLadies these days, it seems, like their heroes rather Byronic or at least somewhat irritable and frowning
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Least convincing cry for help everSuch tragedy! Such pathos! Such horror! This poor afflicted soul must surely go to bed each night, smiling...
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Sex and 'old people'? Heaven forfendI'm sick of reading stories about how the over 50s are ignorant to the risks of sexually transmitted diseases and that older people are rampantly promiscuous, viagra powered slaves to lust ... bla...
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Work & Career
Trouble in the Valleys (or rather, the universities)Corrupt practices at the University of Wales have called into question not only the future of the institution, but the good name of British higher education and the government's future plans for it
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Work & Career
Algorithms ate your pension!Our over-reliance on algorithms may well be our undoing, or at least, cost us our savings and our economy...
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Financial literacy and life planningWhy do so many Britons fail to plan their money for retirement? Why do so many households reach retirement age with little or no wealth?
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Government job scheme doomed to failure?From the people who brought you the YTS - another train wreck attempt to lower the unemployment figures
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Aviva shoots itself in the foot – priceless!Insurance giant, Aviva, drops email redundancy bombshell by mistake.
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