The secret to comedy may be a busy junction in your brain

Somehow, we’ve seriously underestimated confidence. While most of us likely want more of it (only 16 per cent of us describe ourselves as ‘very confident’, according to a YouGov survey), many of us do

So, an extraterrestrial, a robot and an astronaut walk into a bar… sorry, I’m sure you’ve heard that one. Anyway, science-fiction in its past guise was a world of optimism and adventure, the ‘Golden A

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Sometimes it’s not what is said that counts, but the unconscious messages and gestures the body gives away

Are you sitting comfortably? Good. Now, cast your mind back to the last time you had fun. No, not the stylised, curated-for-cachet, posted-to-socials-before-it’s-over kind, but the spontaneous, all-en

Fascinated to know whether she could stand on a stage and make strangers snigger like she does her friends and family, Gaby Huddart enrolled on a stand-up comedy course