You would be able to tell if your mother, your wife or your sister was having a heart attack, wouldn’t you? They’d have chest and left arm pains, maybe clutch their breast. Except they probably...

This is a hot book, but not in a Sally Rooney way. This one is going to stir up the trans activists and provoke all kinds of Twitter pile-ons, bullying and de-p

The phrase ‘not all disabilities are visible’ makes me want to yell. Mine bloody well is and I need help

Your mother, I’ve always believed, resides inside you. After you lose her in life, you continue to carry her inside your heart. She’s sort of there, unshakeable, at the centre of everything. And...

For a year, we’ve been suffering from deficit of dog. This means we lack the following: laughs; fresh air; quiet, constant company; an anti-ageing device. Plus some indefinable richness added to...

Most women who left school in the second half of the 20th century live with a “what if”. What if I’d done more science O-levels? What if I’d had a decent maths

The story is so good it has to be true. In an upmarket hotel gift shop in rural India, Emily Maitlis can’t resist trying on a beautiful cashmere pashmina. She’s feeling a bit uneasy, since she’s...

Edinburgh Castle is bigger than it looks on a tin of shortbread. It imposes, drawing attention away from a dry drinking fountain planted with green, white and purple flowers beneath a little plaque.

Feminism is endlessly difficult, says Helen Lewis, because it has to be. Its history shouldn’t be a shallow hunt for heroines, sandblasting away their faults to please modern sensibilities, because...

About 12 years ago this newspaper started a campaign to investigate the health benefits of vitamin D, the sunshine vitamin — not least because the majority of S

Jordan Peterson’s cheerless view of the universe makes him an anomaly among bestselling self-help authors. The genre tends to require a certain lobotomised opti

Maybe it was too much to expect humility, but to get hostility with a side order of hatred was shocking and utterly, utterly depressing.Boris Johnson arrived in the Commons to face the music for...

Melanie Reid finds inspiration in the life of a ‘plump, speccy swot’ who became a supreme court judge.

Enter hospital in a life or death condition, and you’re pretty oblivious of who’s doing what to you. Human interaction is lost in the frenzy of being ventilated, sedated and resuscitated and, by the...

Siobhan Cattigan and Ann Taylor first met on a Sunday morning at The Burgh Coffeehouse in Stirling. For weeks they’d been exchanging messages on a dating site.

Enter hospital in a life or death condition, and you’re pretty oblivious of who’s doing what to you. Human interaction is lost in the frenzy of being ventilated, sedated and resuscitated and, by the...

Spies, priests, bartenders, psychotherapists, hostage negotiators, hairdressers, air traffic controllers, radio producers, conmen and, on a good day, journalists have one particular skill in common....

This is the story of two bright little girls, Darci Brawner and Monica Potts, best friends growing up in the foothills of the Ozarks in Arkansas. Both childre