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How to be a whizz at quizzes

Olav Bjortomt, the Times’ quiz-setter and quiz-winner extraordinaire, reveals his formula for winning

Tewkesbury: when the memories flood back

To aid rebuilding their lives, the peole of Cockermouth should take a look at what has happened in Tewkesbury

How I lost the gift of joy for a while

Last year, Giles Andreae, the man behind the Purple Ronnie cards, was hit by depression. He gives a searing account of the illness

Open Minds: Tim Lott

When things have been going wrong for long, he says, they eventually start going right— opportunities eventually appear

Rules of the rich

Money can buy you freedom, but it sure doesn’t guarantee the company of sympathetic women

Going up

Ritalin? But my son’s only two

Our writer thought that her toddler son was merely ‘energetic’. But the experts thought differently

How did I get here: Could I be less macho?

I blame my father for my missing manly arts, but I know my limits — including changing a flat tyre

Urban shepherds keep watchful eye on flocks

In Brighton and Croydon ‘lookerers’ discover the joys of tending to sheep and some even take them for a trip into town

My Week: Belle de Jour

I’m sure some women have bad experiences when they spend a night stuck near naked in the rain. I found it empowering

Happy hookers: the other Belles de Jour

When Dr Brooke Magnanti confessed to being the blogger, did she prove that ‘happy hookers’ exist outside male fantasy?

Caster Semenya and the middle sex

Our writer reveals that the NHS has pioneered a new approach to the hundreds of UK babies born each year of unclear sex

Krav Maga: extreme violence for office workers

Why residents of Britain, one of the world’s safest nations, are learning how to rupture testicles and burst eardrums

Seeking sanctuary

Where people have sought safety — from America’s Underground Railroad to a famous West London women’s refuge

Could safe havens prevent teenage stabbings?

The families of two schoolboys killed in London are supporting a new 'safe haven' scheme being launched in the capital

The Get Out of Jail Free gene

The sentence of one killer in Italy has been reduced as he possesses a ‘violent gene’. Can DNA be used as a defence?

The story behind the picture: American elections, 2008

Times photographer Tom Pilston describes the circumstances behind his picture

Cold, dark journeys of the lone wolf

Her bestsellers are set in prehistory but Michelle Paver finds inspiration in the Arctic