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Dismantle the sunbed

Forget smoking bans in cars. The real threat to young life comes from cancer-inducing tanning salons on the high street

Even Vogue thinks you can be too thin

A brave editor exposes fashion's dark secret - the designers themselves demand ultra-skinny models

Obama's America is good for you

As you sit in New York you realise political leaders can lift your spirits. Then you look at negative Britain

Your time is up, Mr Fox

With the hunting ban dead and unmourned, now is the perfect moment to run my urban serial killer to ground

Politics is a tougher game than reality TV

A rude awakening awaits any celebrity tempted by fleeting acclaim to enter the hard slog of a backbench MP's world

My son's SATs test was worthy of Sir Alan

It's a great lie that children hate to compete. Teachers may complain, but kids relish the win-or-lose logic of The Apprentice

Typhoid Mary's journal of the plague week

Here on the frustrating front line of the swine flu outbreak we are swallowing our scepticism along with our Tamiflu

Who do I vote for now? The tricksy Tories?

The Labour project is like a field harvested to stalks, picked clean. Jarvis Cocker is right: it’s the end of an era

Arthur Smith turns author

Arthur Smith’s comedy has lit up the West End and made him a Radio 4 regular. Now he has put it all in a book

Get thee to a miserable Swiss tax haven

Millions are losing their jobs and others having their homes repossessed. How dare the rich whine at paying more tax

Listen girls: you'll never regret not doing it

Allowing abortion clinics to advertise on prime-time TV is fine, but what young women really need is help to say no

What's the next step? Gigolos for all women?

Don't be surprised at the BMW heiress. Today's empowered women have few qualms about paying for bedroom pleasures

Recession strips men and women bare

Marriage is a financial deal. So when unemployment hits home, what is there to prop up our fragile relationships?

We have lost the rudder of appetite

Gastric surgery can remove weight from the obese but cannot cure the underlying reason for their obsessive eating

Joan Bakewell remembers

At 75, she has just written her first novel, but her Sixties fame long ago assured immortality. Janice Turner met her

Tolerance - the wonder of wooliness

It will not marginalise Muslims pupils to sing hymns. It will give them some understanding their home

Older and stroppier: hire that woman!

Three matrons of a certain age have scored a victory over the distaste for post-menopausal womanhood