Puritan anti-nicotine policies are successful only in propping up the tobacco industry

In a John Behan bronze, collector Jacqueline O’Donovan, a child of the Irish diaspora, can sense the desperation of a starving people forced to flee their land

Slippers have made their way out of the bedroom and into the street, finds Simon Mills–although not without precedent or formalities

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Few things feel more British than downing tools between breakfast and lunch for a hot drink and something sweet, declares Jane Emily Phillips

“One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb,” goes the old proverb. The meaning is simple: if you are going to be punished for a small crime, you may as well commit the bigger one. In the early