Being Nice Is Not A Sign Of Weakness
Being nice: it’s not up there in today’s pantheon of qualities to aspire to where 24/7 bionic-ness, time-efficiency, ever-whizzyness seem to mostly hog the limelight. How many of us actually remember...
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Editorial - Wellbeing
On Not Giving A Damn What People Think
I grew up with a grandmother who cared a lot about what people thought of her. She was a wonderful woman – incredibly generous, pillar of the various communities where she lived, from India to Malaya...
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Why We Need To Stop Being So Youth Obsessed And Embrace Ageing
“There’s nothing tragic about being 50. Not unless you’re trying to be 25”- Sunset Boulevard. A curious thought struck me the other day. I thought of all the women who genuinely excite me and I reali...
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The Sound Of Silence
It’s miraculous how the brain adjusts to noise. When I lived literally spitting distance from the roaring Westway/M40 and the every-two-minutes rumble of the Metropolitan Line, in London, I barely not...
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Beauty Confessions Of A 56 Year Old
Hello 56, who the hell let you in? One minute you’re a dimple-cheeked forty something who could get away with being several years younger and the next you mistakenly press FaceTime and this scary app...
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How To Reset In September
Given that it’s the been the hottest summer in four decades and we’ve all been utterly spoiled, I’m not exactly sensing a stampede back to school/university/job or a life without school children clawi...
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