The three most powerful words in the English language are said to be: ‘I love you.’ But there are another three words that I think deserve equal billing: ‘I forgive you.’ Forgiveness doesn’t evoke the same frisson of excitement as love. It might not be the subject of as many films or have as many … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK THE WELL-GARDENED MIND by Sue Stuart-Smith (William Collins £20, 352pp) Back in 1915 Alexander Douglas Gillespie, an officer with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, wrote a letter home from the battlefields of Northern France. He told how ‘a big shell suddenly swooped down from nowhere into the trench, killing five and … Read more
Challenge your mind on Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training! This Nintendo Switch game features daily exercises to sharpen numeracy, literacy and memory By Corinna Burton For Mailonline Published: 22:43 BST, 25 June 2020 | Updated: 22:48 BST, 25 June 2020 Do you like to keep your mind busy with numeracy, literacy and memory games? If so, Dr … Read more
My best friend and my worst enemy — that’s what I call it. Worst enemy because it’s not fun to be disorganised, to take on too much, to begin tasks but not complete them, to be distracted, to lose concentration or to not follow instructions. Best friend because it allows me to make the random … Read more
Those venturing out in London’s most deprived areas in the first weeks of lockdown might have witnessed some rather odd sights. On some High Streets groups of teenagers took to congregating outside a closed McDonald’s, pressing up against the windows as they waved their mobile phones about. They weren’t craving a Big Mac or a … Read more
Have you been cleaning your oven wrong your whole life? Mind blowing video shows a little-known feature that removes the glass door in seconds A homeowner has revealed how she made her greasy oven door squeaky clean Woman said she’d struggled to thoroughly clean her ‘double glassed’ oven door But her husband recently showed her … Read more
A PE teacher and mother-of-two from the Gold Coast has shared the 20 life lessons that she has learned that have ‘changed her life and health rapidly’. Belinda Norton, 43, is known in health circles for looking better in her 40s than she did in her 20s, after she abandoned excessive cardio for weights and … Read more
Kerry Washington balances her mind and body as she does yoga in her backyard… and talks social justice with actor Kendrick Sampson By Christine Rendon For Dailymail.com Published: 03:45 BST, 8 June 2020 | Updated: 06:22 BST, 8 June 2020 She has been teaching her Instagram followers how to unwind with yoga. And Kerry Washington … Read more
A colleague told me the other day that more people are currently being treated for the consequences of attempted suicide than for Covid-19 at his hospital. The sad thing is, I didn’t find this particularly shocking. Just two weeks after lockdown, on March 23, I expressed my fears in this column that mental health patients … Read more
Boris Johnson ‘changes his mind’ over Huawei deal and ‘wants a way out of the agreement’ The company is to hold talks with Downing Street following reports No 10 is seeking a way out of the deal to let Huawei build 35 per cent of the 5G network A senior Government source told the Sunday … Read more