My last f-factors blog was about salmon sperm, how one of its uses (other than impregnating salmon) has become as an anti-ageing treatment. This blog ...
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A headline in The London Standard last month caught my eye. It read: ‘Are you ready to get your glow …with a salmon sperm facial?’ Q...
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When Martin Amis published his first novel in 1973, The Times Literary Supplement described it as “scurrilous, shameless and very funny”. ...
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On April 15, 2019, the great and revered cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris suffered devastating damage in a fire which engulfed much of the building. T...
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I don’t know how many times I have been to Terminal 1 at Nice Airport in France (certainly a fair few times more than I have been to Terminal 2)...
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One of the most popular maxims uttered in relation to the beautiful game is that ‘goals change matches’. Thus it was at the Emirates Stadi...
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Having for many people become famous as Alexander Armstrong’s sidekick on the BBC programme Pointless, Richard Osman has since certainly scaled ...
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Ahead of the Ryder Cup, the European captain, Luke Donald, enlisted the help of Roger Federer, Rafa Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray to provide m...
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My wife and I recently spent an exceedingly pleasant few days at a guest house in Cornwall. We had been to England’s most westerly county before on ...
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