From the front
Dorothy Rowe is touched by messages from the past
Mind, Body & Life
Are you being served?
As two new TV series about the early days of the department store hit UK screens, we revisit Sally Feldman's paeon to the all too human(ist) urge to shop
Ergo Mania
'I shop, therefore I am'
The holy zygote
Raffaella Malaguti on Rome's birth controllers
Onions in your navel
Sally Feldman sticks a few pins in the ancient custom of cursing
Freudian trip
Peter Kerr-Jarrett takes a couch trip
What’s the point?
David Ramey sticks a pin in the argument for acupuncture
All a big mistake
Did the godfather of evolution finally renounce his theory? As Darwin Day approaches Padraig Reidy delves into the many shameful rumours of deathbed recantation
Heady Stuff
Simon Hoggart refines his palate
Bullseyes, Black jacks and Nelson’s Balls
How can something that tastes so good be so bad? Sally Feldman succumbs to the secret seduction of sweets