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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 …

Not one of the 700 men here shares a room. It’s a high-security facility, housing the long-term sentenced. Here, prisoners were locked inside their cells for long stretches. Maghaberry has seen it all, and worse. Robert Black suffered a stroke in 1996, just two years into his sentence for the …

A DNA test revealed writer John Ingham’s Viking roots (Image: JONATHAN BUCKMASTER) At sunrise and sunset the longship comes ablaze in the reflected rays – perfect for this land of fire and ice. Just a short walk away, not far from Iceland’s parliament, are the remains of a 10th-century longhouse …

Andy McNab reveals ‘hardest’ part of SAS training Hackers, often children in developing countries using laptops in their bedrooms or computer hubs, are being paid vast sums of money for discovering weaknesses in foreign computer systems that can be exploited. After writing 21 novels featuring undercover intelligence operative Nick Stone …

Author Lee Child supports Daily Express’s Give a Book campaign Speaking exclusively to the Daily Express, former journalist Sir Tom Stoppard agrees wholeheartedly. “Give A Book is a great charity. I’ve had books now for 75 years – that’s the length of time I’ve had my own personal books – so …

The author, hailed as the “Queen of the bonkbuster” who had huge success with her saucy series of novels, is consulting for the adaption of her book for a new eight-part series on Disney+. But Jilly, 85, believes viewers are just not as raunchy as they used to be. She …