en-uk Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:37:29 GMT Copyright 2007 Times Newspapers Ltd. custserv@timesonline.co.uk http://www.timesonline.co.uk Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:32:23 GMT Newspapers 144 21 http://www.timesonline.co.uk http://images.thetimes.co.uk/TGD/picture/0,,116979,00.gif Caitlin Moran Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:36 GMT 2009-11-20T05:26:54Z A recently launched government initiative aims to give key advice to first-time fathers. Called “the Dad Card”, the leaflet is issued in maternity wards, and gives simple tips — including the suggestion that fathers should try to “help provide a loving and calm environment” during birth. Caitlin Moran Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:47 GMT 2009-11-13T05:35:04Z In our godless, temperate island, the true harbinger of the yuletide is not Stir-Up Sunday. Nor is it the first, silent, icing-sugar drifts of snow. No. The first frissons of Christmassiness come in early November, with the major supermarkets announcing which lines they’re going to be aggressively pushing from RIGHT NOW! until December 24, clang KER-CHING, etc. Caitlin Moran Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:14 GMT 2009-11-06T03:55:12Z Everything’s changing in 2010. Since the inception of the internet, all e-mail addresses have been rendered in Latin script — presumably because of either brutal Western imperialism, or Mandarin not having an @ sign. As of next year, however, the first internationalised domain names come into effect — meaning e-mail addresses can now be entirely in Chinese, Arabic or Russian script. And probably, at some later point, authentic Tolkein Elvish, if all the software programmers I’ve met so far are a widely representative bunch. Caitlin Moran Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:01:56 GMT 2009-10-30T06:25:11Z A report last week claimed that a growing number of people are taking LSD and other psychedelic drugs — such as Ecstasy — to help with a range of problems including anorexia nervosa, cluster headaches and chronic anxiety attacks. Dr John Halpern, a psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School, found that, of 53 people with cluster headaches, “almost all” obtained relief when taking either LSD or psilocybin, otherwise known as magic mushrooms. Caitlin Moran Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:33 GMT 2009-10-23T04:26:34Z The ferocity with which Britain greeted Gordon Brown’s Biscuit Indecision has, I have to say, bewildered and alarmed me. Mumsnet, the parenting website, asked him to name his favourite biscuit, and it took him two days of stalling, to mounting public outrage, before he plumped for the Official Downing Street Choc Chip; by this point the PR horse had bolted and everyone seemed to have decided that he was a total bastard.