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Waaaay sah… Allyuh couldn’t just wrap allyuh head in African cloth, take a little chip down the road, pose for photos, and leave people to enjoy Emancipation Day? By the time you read this, who knows what the Prime Minister would have just posted, the Opposition Leader retorted, and anyone …

My bossy back demands an extreme degree of planning if I am to venture out. Sitting or standing for an hour or so is about as much as it can take without making the following days painfully unpleasant. But when Jackie Hinkson sent me an invitation to the QRC Art …

For thousands of years, humanity has suspected the moon of interfering in almost every department of medicine. Sleeplessness, fever, bleeding, melancholy, romance, tides, werewolves and madness in the emergency department? Someone has almost certainly blamed the moon. This monthly rhythm seemed too powerful to be irrelevant. If the moon could …

A few years ago, Michal Teja captured hearts and titles with his hit song, DNA. At the time, I was living abroad and remember being moved by the line: “freedom in we DNA”. I was moved by that line as the Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Palestine conflicts brewed, and what could be …

On 14 July, Spain offered a sublime display of football savoir faire to the world and knocked the French out of this year’s Fifa World Cup in the semi-final. Five days later, on 19 July, the Spaniards overcame the defensive and unenterprising Argentinians in the final, to take their second …

Coffee and chocolate have spent years in and out of medicine’s good books. One month, coffee is blamed for palpitations, high blood pressure and sleepless nights. The next, it is being praised for lowering the risk of diabetes, liver disease and early death. Chocolate is treated no better. A study …