Apple’s late leader Steve Jobs was known for having unusual habits — soaking his feet in the toilet during times of stress, for instance. His successor Tim Cook is more conventional, as bosses go. But ...

In a nutshell, the government argued that an individual can be deprived of all their money and other assets indefinitely because there is some faint hope they might, fingers crossed, have some ...

It is a few decades since Nancy Schlossberg identified six routes “retirees”(that’s people not greyhounds) take out of work: Continuers; Adventurers; Easy Gliders; Involved Spectators; Searchers and ...

Innovations are hard to imagine before the fact. Go back 15 years, and some of the Lionesses had day jobs, only playing football at the weekend. Now it’s taken for granted that they are paid to play ...

We rely totally on adequate “rote memorisation” — that is, repetitive accurate retrieval. Equating that with “regurgitation” — a term usually indicative of vomiting undesired food or drink intake — is ...

Ha-Joon Chang (“How economics became the Aeroflot of ideas”, Opinion, July 24) makes many excellent points. Despite the fact that my own ideological stance is quite different to his — I am a classical ...