I lived in Walsall when I was growing up and I still go back to see my dad, who’s in his 90s. It was a bustling place, there was a thriving market life. Every Saturday, me and my mates would walk thro

Alan Carr and Susie Dent front a new series that aims to uncover some of the UK’s finest minds…

The countdown to Ranvir Singh’s 50th birthday next August has begun, only the next 18 months won’t be focused on party plans but building strength. “I’m looking more inward than outward for my 50th,”

As I sat on the sofa with Dad, eating sweets, my eyes drifted to the walls. ‘Why do you have so many pictures of the devil?’ I asked. ‘I think it’s cool,’ Dad shrugged. It was 2007 and even at six, I

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We need to encourage our kids to celebrate, not mock, their intelligence, says Susie Dent