"Sometimes you win, often you don’t"

Some patients, I know, imagine indifference in a therapist just doing the job. The opposite is true"

"Here, I thought, is a whole subcategory of vocabulary"

"Centuries ago, date wine was consumed in the Middle East by those who could not afford fermented grapes"

"This was cutting edge and something I had never seen"

And for many reasons other than financial hardship

"Tinned fish is transforming itself from a cupboard staple into an upmarket appetiser"

"An influential translator can be the midwife to a whole canon or, for that matter, a whole national literature"

The attractions of Lifetime ISAs are obvious—but there are drawbacks, too

"Diagnosis is comforting, mainly for the diagnoser"