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The Maureen Spring column

Latest research on babies is rubbish!

THE omens were not good. I’d been standing on the platform for ages freezing from feet to top of my head and really beginning to wonder why I’d given in to my friend’s constant nagging (12 months of it to be precise) to persuade me to visit for a weekend. I didn’t want to go. Read

Why never to judge a book by its cover...

IWAS having a quiet browse in the bookshop, making a mental list for possible Christmas pressies - to give and hopefully receive. Read

The Alan Poole column

Alan Poole: Rules is rules

I DON'T think it's a symptom of encroaching senility because I've been doing it for decades, but talking to (not to mention bellowing at) the TV or radio is clearly the sign of, at best, a confused mind. Read

The victims of a rich man's game

TRADITION dictates that it's the rich what gets the pleasure, the poor what gets the blame - but while that nugget of socioeconomic analysis remains essentially sound, the balance between self-indulgence and culpability is rather more complex these days. Read