If diets are ‘for the thick who are tired of it’ (as a Times leader recently claimed) which dieting option would suit your personality? Published in The Times January 3rd 2004 1 – Slimming Club This is a reliable diet for sociable extroverts. Those who would love...

Psychotherapist Phillip Hodson considers the wider perils of the therapeutic hug The Times - 6th December 2003 Up to 12 New York firemen face divorce because they have fallen in love with widows of comrades slaughtered in the Twin Towers. Following a century’s old ‘liaison’ tradition in their Department,...

Something’s happening in the nation’s psyche and the website Friends Reunited (which allows school contemporaries to get back in touch with each other) is responsible… Published The Times September 13th 2003 Current trends show that Friends Reunited is the fastest-growing and largest organisation in Britain. Fifteen per...

Emotional Time Lords have the power to travel from our past lives and wreak havoc in the present. But unlike Doctor Who, you don't need a Tardis to escape. Published in The Observer August 25, 2002 'Ian', a middle-aged politician who normally copes successfully with his peers,...