Do you need to find the same things funny in a relationship?
Sharing a laugh is a sure way to know you've hit it off, says Alison Taylor
Sharing a laugh is a sure way to know you've hit it off, says Alison Taylor
At the machines are terrified tourists and at least one person having a stroke from the stress
Grace Dent implores you to accept, with every bodily fibre, the greatest threat to the British psyche right now: winter
During the most intensive phase of Robyn Fellow's treatment her parents were bringing her to GOSH from South Wales every two weeks, covering as much as 70,000 miles
Cameron fully intends to match his words with deeds and that is to be welcomed
Hosting the Radio 1 breakfast show the morning after 9/11 was unforgettable – expats who lived in New York were emailing the show unable to sleep in the small hours, Manhattan time
I'm all for strange, which is why I love pelicans, but the millions of mourning fans cannot be strange to each other
The following letters appear in the 16th January edition of the Independent
The demise of cinema's sense of escapism comes in award shows
Why would a charity want to shell out £1,500 for a table for just 10 people?
National anthems will matter for as long as nation-states themselves do. These hymns to blood and soil became the soundtracks to state-building
Countries at the CITES Standing Committee in Geneva have agreed that a clear signal needs to be sent to the world against smuggling ivory in light of the current poaching crisis
Recent support, and further exploration, of the Basic Income has come from the Royal Society of the Arts, the think tank Compass, the 'innovation charity' Nesta and even the French Ministry of Labour
Losing Turkey as an ally could make life more complicated for the US, but Turkey is no longer the asset it once was. Instead, it has become a liability and a destabilising actor in the region
Friends is a TV show that never strives for deeper meaning. You're spared having to see Phoebe hustling for welfare when songs about the sickening aroma of cat shit fail to make her enough money to survive day to day
Jeremy Hunt has described junior doctors as the "backbone of the NHS". I have a little gem for him I picked up at medical school: your backbone (or spine as we call it in the trade) is important
It was only five years ago that the first nursery in Westminster was built
For his first Southbank concert he'd chosen the two most electrifying symphonic works of the twentieth century
I don't know who I am or what I want. And I'm not prepared to have a child until I've worked that out - no matter which media outlet brands me "selfish" for failing to procreate
Universities have been foolishly indulgent of radicals
We are no longer challenging bigotry, prejudice and hatred as long as it is garbed in Islam
The Competition and Markets Authority has given its approval for the merger between BT and EE
Droves of people returned from the cinema as if they'd touched the Pope's hand. But let's face it: they were forced to react that way by the hype
Emma Rice is wrong to think reading Shakespeare makes you sleepy
Putting the term 'reunion' into serious question