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Take time to make time

January 24, 2012
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Take time to make time

Minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day, we struggle with time. At work, we are haunted by missed deadlines, ever-fuller inboxes and undone to-do lists. In our private lives, we are so busy fretting about the past and the future that we often forget to enjoy the present. We are both short...

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How to cook haggis the Ranald Macdonald way

January 23, 2012
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Did you celebrate Burns Night when you were growing up? ‘Truthfully, not,’ he says. He does in his Boisdale restaurants, however, which comprise three venues in London and a pub – the Lamb at Hindon, Wiltshire – where an ambience of mahogany panelling, a cigar terrace and a menu...

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Diabetes has not been defeated | Barbara Young

January 23, 2012
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Diabetes has not been defeated | Barbara Young

Diabetes remains the leading cause of blindness in people of working age and causes thousands of amputations every year. Photograph: Martin Godwin/Guardian Imagine a medical condition with no known cause that mostly affects children and young adults. The only treatment is a starvation diet, but the disease will eventually...

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Drink Review: Whisky for Burns Night

January 22, 2012
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The style goes well with food: smoked salmon, peppery haggis, a whisky-and-cream-based dessert. Though you might swap to a ripe red with the haggis, since it makes a somewhat better match. Just the one glass of wine for me, then it’s back to Scotland’s finest for the night. TRY...

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I still think about the ‘what ifs’ behind my maternity care

January 22, 2012
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I still think about the ‘what ifs’ behind my maternity care

Emma Cook Emma Cook with her daughter Amelia, who was

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