The ancestry of holidays
Did you know that holidays were originally referred to as special religious days or ‘holy days’? With an average person spending 17 per cent of their disposable income on holidays, it is worth dedicat ...
LIFESTYLE
The Kite Runner, first a novel, then a film, now a play
Robert Tanitch reviews The Kite Runner at Wyndham’s Theatre, London WC2 Khalid Hosseini’s best-selling novel, a very moving story of loyalty, betrayal and redemption, published in 2003 and filmed in 2 ...
1977 and all that
We often look back when the New Year dawns and for me this year was no exception. It’s forty years since I went off to college and it got me thinking back to events that made up 1977. The most signifi ...
Beware the Online Scams
More than a million over-45s have fallen victim to email scams, according to Aviva’s latest Real Retirement Report, which also highlights that the experience of being targeted via email is 22% more co ...