Life, is ‘poor nasty brutish and short’ said Thomas Hobbes. Certainly, it’s no bed of roses. Natural selection should have equipped us to deal with fear and anxiety, but has it?

More than 800,000 people are expected to tune in tomorrow night for the final episode in the third series of Love/Hate.

BRITAIN, it seems, is drowning in a vale of tears. One after another, in the run-up to their general election, British politicians are lining up to emote in public. Never before have so many cried so easily, so openly and so often.

HE was not quite in the same league as King Herod but Brian Lenihan saw no need to spare the children.

A remarkable collection of art and historical objects dating to Elizabethan England has begun a tour of the United States.