Mental health
The snowflake factory
We’re training our children to be thin-skinned, censorious and belligerently entitled
Mind games
Blue/Orange by Joe Penhall enjoys the dubious status of a modern classic. A black mental-health patient, Christopher, is about to…
Fear of the baby-snatchers
Why many mothers with post-natal depression now dread a visit from social services
Sound and fury
No one is consulted. No one is held to account. No one has the authority to turn it off. How…
Dear Mary
Q. I regularly travel on the Ashford-St Pancras train and usually put my case on the seat next to me…
Summer’s end
Hedonism, tragedy and me
The spies we left in the cold
Is MI5 neglecting its duty towards ex-informers?
Shrunk
America’s psychoanalysts are becoming an endangered species
Barometer
Royally paid Staff at Windsor Castle were balloted in strike action over pay. What can you earn in the royal…
The unstable element
Madness is an ancient, evidently inscrutable mystery, often regarded with superstitious fear, yet can provide a refuge from reality. Sometimes,…
I blame the parents
If Britain has a crisis in children’s mental health, it’s easy to see why
Let Greece go
To listen to Greek government ministers addressing the outside world during their breaks from negotiations with eurozone leaders this week,…
The cult of mindfulness
Separating meditation from faith might not be as harmless as it seems
Churchgoing is good for you
And that’s true whether or not you believe in God
Loss, grief and guilt
About 30 pages in and unable to find my bearings, I flipped to the end of this novel — well,…
If Philip Seymour Hoffman wasn’t happy, what hope is there for the rest of us?
Celebrity deaths have no decorum. From Elvis on his toilet to Whitney face down in her bathtub, their last moments…
