Had I known I’d be in lockdown with just my boyfriend for company for the next two months, I would have turned back round to the olive groves, the sandy beaches and the warm embrace of my grandmother.

To meet the demands of a modern sexual being, polyamory’s open agenda is becoming increasingly attractive…

43 per cent of the world’s population is bilingual, with equal fluency in both the languages they speak. The world’s polyglots (making up 1 per cent, or about 72 million people) speak more than five languages fluently. 

When The Body Shop launched its hempseed oil beauty range in 1998, its store in France was raided by the police owing to the contentious source of the extract used in the products: the hemp or cannabis plant.

Here, writer Anastasia Miari recalls the most profound lessons she learned from a year of cooking with grandmothers.

In the grand scheme of our history on the planet, we’re just starting to get used to living in urban settings.

Rest (quite literally) ­assured, I have tried every single method out there – from the commonsensical to the slightly zany – to cure myself of insomnia. The answer came to me after trying every trick in the book. 

New Year’s resolutions are a little like your first teenage love affair. They start with so much promise, hope and expectation, but after a short while – months if you have staying power, weeks if you’re like the rest of us – they lose their appeal and you become distracted and move on to new things.