Joshua Foer was crowned US memory champion after training for just one year. Anyone can learn the same tricks—but is it worth doing?

The King’s Speech is the first film to portray my speech defect realistically, says the Man Booker-nominated novelist David Mitchell

Smartphones tell us what to do, where to go and let us play Angry Birds. And when we need them the most, they run out of battery

Roast trout and warm potato salad make the perfect spring supper if you live in Tuscany—and even if you don’t

Antarctica is the world’s last great wilderness and of course it should be preserved. But that doesn’t mean we can’t visit it

There’s an official anthem to this Six Nations tournament. The fans, however, have their own songs to sing

Recently, I managed to lose a lot of money. But I’ve since learned a great deal—and discovered some sympathy for Irish bankers

Extracts from memoirs and diaries recording mass protests of the past