A staple in many festive recipes, this would be the perfect time to discover that butter is good for us after all, wouldn’t it? Does the latest science give us any reason to be jolly?

I started my career as a news journalist, working in frantic newsrooms and reporting on key events. But my heart was always in health – I enjoy writing about things that benefit people, rather than si

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I spent much of my life in the environmental movement and have been arrested in protests against coal expansion and tar-sands oil extraction, says Zion Lights. But over time, I realised I had been mis

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