Penny for your thoughts

Jonathan Clark links the decline of popular aphorisms to a disappearing shared moral code

The wisdom of Bertie Wooster

One answer to this question is relatively straightforward. For much of Greek history, people living near the coast or on the islands ate plenty of fish and seafood – not out of obsession, but out of p

What does your wee say about your health? Well, plenty – but perhaps not in quite the way medieval physicians understood it. Before the in-depth study of anatomy and physiology, establishing the cause

THERE is a word which trips me up, over and over again. It might lead me to lie, to exaggerate, or make light of things which are actually troublesome. The word, of course, is “fine”. I wonder whether

On the morning of 4 August 1577, the good Christian folk of Bungay assembled in St Mary’s Church for their regular Sunday service. But more sinister forces were also gathering in the Suffolk town. Dar