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Conversations about the weather are rarely actually about the weather. As the social anthropologist Kate Fox writes in her brilliant and often snort-inducing book, Watching the English, weather chat is in fact “a form of code, evolved to help us overcome our natural reserve and actually talk to each other.”…

"The hope is that this book reaches many and can support those with achieving and maintaining optimum mental wealth and wellbeing."

Labour leader to co-operate with biography instead

The elegant event saw the best voices in food and drink come together to recognise outstanding achievement

Harry will ‘come limping home’ when marriage ‘ends in tears’ says diarist and former minister Chris Mullin

Many people realise that Boris Johnson is a dishonest chancer who lacks any real convictions, said David Gauke in The New Statesman. Less obvious – at least to those outside Whitehall – is “quite how extraordinarily inept he was at performing some of the basic functions of being prime minister”.…

The speculation about the author of the book made it a bestseller on Amazon as well as Barnes & Noble

The author and critic reflects on a life in writing in this highly original work of autobiography

mystics and sceptics: in search of himalayan masters