‘I don’t think it’s useful to be angry any more’
Earlier this week, writer and radio producer Sarah Parkinson died of breast cancer. Last year, she wrote this article about how she and husband Paul Merton were coping
Blast-off
Ms Dynamite exploded into the national consciousness this week as the first black female performer to win the Mercury Music prize. She might be commercial - but she still rocks.
In search of lost times
When the brilliant Renaissance scholar Sir John Hale had a stroke at the age of 69 he was written off by doctors as a hopeless case. His wife, Sheila Hale, refused to give up. In an extract from her moving new book, she recounts her painful battles with the NHS and her search to rediscover the husband she once knew.
A heart-rending choice
January 30 1996: The abortion debate used to split between those who upheld the foetus's right to life and those who believed in a woman's right to choose. Feminists and the rest of the liberal world were clear about which side of the fence they were on. Not any more. Kate Figes re-examines the issues.
A guide to slimming
1961: Every magazine, it seems, gives dietary information these days. Sometimes this is good and is written by qualified people; often it is sheer nonsense, says Eugenie Fordham.