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How the postman might save your elderly mum
Joe Dickinson greets a pensioner on a Jersey doorstep. He mobilised the island’s postal workers to call on vulnerable people — an idea that won The Sunday Times Change Makers (Katie Patterson) To mark...
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The ghost village rises again
This feature originally appeared in The Sunday Times Haweswater curls like a tapeworm beneath the bald, brown peaks of Westmorland. This is the most isolated tarn in the Lake District, edged by a...
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Interview: Bob Geldof
This interview originally appeared in the Sunday Times Bob Geldof — sunken cheeks, bowed shoulders, 63 going on 80 — is explaining how the grief still grabs him. “I don’t have to be alone. I don’t...
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Feature: Working at the Waterside Inn
Learning to spoon sauce with Diego Masciaga (Jeremy Young) This feature originally appeared in the Sunday Times People think they go to restaurants for the food. Barring a few strip-lit chicken shops...
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Interview: Ivan Massow
Ivan Massow with parrot (Francesco Guidicini) This interview originally appeared in The Sunday Times Forget the past indiscretions — escorts, drugs, boozing — and the two suicide attempts. The real...
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Interview: Joan Collins
You glimpse what life must be like if you’re Joan Collins when you watch the police open the road for her. I am in a chauffeur-driven Jag with the actress and her silky-suave fifth husband, Percy...
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How I became an obsessive tidier
With broom. (Francesco Guidicini) Originally published in the Sunday Times There was no foul epiphany, no squelch or stab underfoot that shocked me into doing something about my bedroom. Concerned...
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Interview: Natalie Bennett
Originally published in the Sunday Times The leader of what is probably Britain’s fastest-growing political party still stacks shelves at her local supermarket. Natalie Bennett, a pleasantly twitchy...
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Book review: Love and Lies by Clancy Martin
Clancy Martin Originally published in the Sunday Times Clancy Martin was about nine years old and had just started masturbating when he experienced what he calls his “first explicitly sexual encounter...
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Interview: Anne Glover
This interview with the EU’s former chief scientific advisor originally appeared in the Sunday Times Anne Glover wrote her PhD thesis on “the biochemistry and biosynthesis of halobacterial membrane...
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Feature: Butter is good for you after all
This feature originally appeared in the Sunday Times Last week a major study found that the longstanding official advice in this country, which said animal fats were bad for us, was wrong. Since 1983...
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Book review: Girl in the Dark by Anna Lyndsey
This originally appeared in the Sunday Times In the summer of 2005, Anna Lyndsey was a thriving young civil servant in the Department for Work and Pensions. She had just bought her first flat, and...
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Interview: Ben Lecomte
This interview originally appeared in the Sunday Times In July, Ben Lecomte will squeeze into a wetsuit, walk into the sea near Tokyo and begin a steady front crawl. Six months later, he hopes that...
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Travel feature: Athens restaurants
The dish ‘Orange Explosion’ at Funky Gourmet This feature originally appeared in the Sunday Times The feta cheese that wished to be a beetroot”. As names of dishes go, it was among the silliest I’d...
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Interview: Peter Ackroyd
(Francesco Guidicini) This interview originally appeared in the Sunday Times There is a mystery to Peter Ackroyd that baffles his observers. How does the author — a plump and wheezing 65-year-old with...
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Interview: Johanna Basford
The first question is — why? Why have colouring books for grown-ups suddenly become a thing? On Amazon’s page of the bestselling books in this country, five of the top 11 are for overgrown toddlers...
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Feature: The sharing economy
This feature originally appeared in the Sunday Times Squid, who has a queer name for a dog, arrives at my flat with his South African owner and a strained expression, then urinates with visible relief...
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Interview: Angela Lansbury
(Marilyn Kingwall) ‘Don’t kid yourself, my dear,” Angela Lansbury scolds down the phone at me from her suite at the Rosewood hotel. (This is a beautiful Edwardian building in central London, only 11...
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Interview: Jonny Benjamin
Jonny Benjamin on Waterloo Bridge When Jonny Benjamin decided to kill himself by jumping from Waterloo Bridge on January 14, 2008, he chose it because of the view. “This was always my favourite place...
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Interview: Paris Hilton
Paris Hilton This feature originally appeared in the Sunday Times Paris Hilton’s people are “really protective”, which is why, several days in advance, they insist on knowing the “exact questions” I’m...
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