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    • Friday, 13 January, 2023
      Life & Arts
      Prince Harry, ‘Spare’ and a new reckoning between the press and the royals

      A former Today programme and newspaper editor on the Duke of Sussex’s fraught relations with the tabloids

    • Saturday, 19 June, 2021
      Life & Arts
      London diary — Boris, Bach and wedded bliss

      Virtual meetings at the G7, virtual nuptials in Hong Kong and the virtues of a new play on the life of the composer

    • Friday, 19 March, 2021
      Life & Arts
      London diary — freedom, and freedom from fear

      As vaccines roll out and spring advances, we return to a world forever changed and hauntingly familiar

    • Friday, 26 February, 2021
      Books
      An end to our enforced monasticism

      The important lessons of our self-isolation include patience, fortitude and compassion — but also humility

    • Friday, 18 December, 2020
      Life & Arts
      A year of going nowhere fast

      Exercise bikes have been a pandemic hit — but nothing beats getting outside

    • Saturday, 21 November, 2020
      Life & Arts
      Obama, Diana and the meaning of ambition

      Barack Obama learnt that politics was about conveying messages through emotion or rhetoric, rather than conducting public life as a seminar

    • Saturday, 31 October, 2020
      Life & Arts
      Books, the Beeb and our Tolstoyan times

      Diary: Sarah Sands reflects on a week in a divided, disrupted London

    • Friday, 4 September, 2020
      Life & Arts
      Sarah Sands: farewell to the baffling, brilliant BBC

      Bias, bluster and uncomfortable truths — the departing Today editor on three turbulent years

    • Saturday, 15 August, 2020
      Life & Arts
      Norfolk diary: lilies, silence and monastic life

      Sarah Sands builds a Monet-inspired pond and goes in search of some radical humility

    • Friday, 29 May, 2020
      Boris Johnson
      The Boris Johnson rules for life

      Why has the prime minister stood by Dominic Cummings? A former colleague has some theories

    • Friday, 29 May, 2020
      Life & Arts
      The Boris Johnson rules for life

      Why has the prime minister stood by Dominic Cummings? A former colleague has some theories

    • Thursday, 30 January, 2020
      BBC
      Sarah Sands to step down as editor of BBC’s Today programme

      Former London Evening Standard editor will depart as broadcaster embarks on reorganisation

    • Friday, 17 January, 2020
      Life & Arts
      Harry, Meghan and Britain’s new culture war

      On the one side, wokeness — on the other, Queen and country

    • Friday, 20 December, 2019
      Life & Arts
      My search for the Queen of Sheba

      Sarah Sands walks in the footsteps of a Biblical enigma — and takes Latin lessons from Boris Johnson

    • Friday, 28 June, 2019
      Life & Arts
      Tokyo diary: On Buddhism — and Boris Johnson

      Sarah Sands pursues inner peace in Japan but cannot quite escape the Tory leadership race

    • Friday, 8 March, 2019
      Life & Arts
      London Diary — of culinary diplomacy and creative cities

      Are ‘female’ industries getting a raw deal in Britain?

    • Thursday, 3 January, 2019
      Big tech
      How to reconcile our fractured relationship with Big Tech

      This year looks likely to be one of reckonings for Facebook and its fellow platforms

    • Friday, 19 October, 2018
      Retail sector
      My quest for self-sufficiency via a giant handbag

      No need to juggle work and home if you lug both around wherever you go

    • Friday, 5 October, 2018
      Gender politics
      Views of masculinity change when women hold the camera

      While creating a fairer society, we should be careful about presenting a false one

    • Saturday, 22 September, 2018
      Religion
      ‘Temples of fun’ are a hard sell for the Church of England

      In the end, faith as comfort and community are more compelling than entertainment

    • Saturday, 8 September, 2018
      Next Act
      Five-generation families are our future

      Longer lifespans mean the ‘sandwich generation’ has company in the middle

    • Friday, 24 August, 2018
      UK business & economy
      Weighing the value of a good joke is a political minefield

      Boris Johnson grew resentful at being treated as a figure of fun by Theresa May

    • Friday, 3 August, 2018
      Millennials
      Holidaying with millennials for a week of digital isolation

      As if in a modern morality tale, without WiFi we began to have real conversations

    • Friday, 20 July, 2018
      Managing yourself
      The perils of pyjama paralysis

      Does the way you dress say something about the rigour that you bring to your work?

    • Friday, 6 July, 2018
      Personal productivity
      Sleep deprivation is part of our productivity problem

      The on-demand economy and 24-hour news cycle are bad for mental health

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