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Paul McKenna (Image: GETTY) People often tell me: “I don’t want to be stressed, I don’t want to be anxious, I don’t want to be frightened.” They worry about worrying. In other words, they are focusing on what it is they don’t want so they tend to get more of …

A glorious view of The Milky Way (Image: Getty) Whenever you are, go out and enjoy the night sky this evening. Make the most of it, because experts have issued a stark warning that it’s about to change forever – potentially spelling the end of centuries of stargazing history in …

Tutankhamun: Expert discusses archaeologist Howard Carter He was a boy king who only reigned for nine years. But a full three millennia on from the death of Tutankhamun, new theories and evidence suggest that his burial tomb maybe hasn’t yet given up all of its secrets. In February 1922, British …

Winter in Scottish Highlands (Image: Getty) The Scottish author, who has sold more than 12 million books, had initially thought he would not write another novel. He had planned instead to make music at his manor house in south-west France after his last thriller, The Night Gate, was published in …

Since the worldwide Covid pandemic, obtaining a better work-life balance has moved up our list of priorities. A global survey of more than 21,000 adults in 27 countries in September 2020 revealed seven in 10 people wanted their life to change significantly rather than returning to how it was before …

GP says uncertainty is ‘killing people’ from Covid and mental health If I could give people just one ability from everything I’ve learnt, it would be to switch off anxiety and go into a state of instant calm at will. That’s because one of the greatest problems facing the world …

Prince Harry: Palmer discusses Lady Hussey Novelist Kia Abdullah would like us all to be kinder to each other. When people make assumptions about her based on her cultural background (she is second-generation Bangladeshi), Abdullah prefers to “make a gentle correction – you don’t need to hit someone over the …

Author Lee Child supports Daily Express’s Give a Book campaign Give A Book is a charity dedicated to promoting books and the pleasure of reading in the hardest places. I started it after my husband, Simon Gray, died in 2008. Playwright, novelist, and diarist author of The Smoking Diaries, Simon …

Painting showing the surrender of British General John Burgoyne at Saratoga (Image: Getty) He might have been known for his erotic verse, which amused his aristocratic friends. Perhaps he could have been famed for his 30 years as a Member of Parliament. Or as a military spy, gambler, and socialite. …

Holocaust survivor Peter Lantos at his home in London earlier this month (Image: Jeff Moore ) Despite being born shortly before the Second World War set Europe ablaze, Peter Leipniker had an idyllic start in life. Growing up in the small Hungarian town of Makó, his loving father Sándor was …