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A LIFE AND A HALF: THE UNEXPECTED MAKING OF A POLITICIAN by Chris Bryant (Bloomsbury £25, 336pp)FROM repressed Anglican priest to liberated Labour MP, via the throbbing gay nightclubs of 1990s London: it’s been quite a journey for…

Most of us carry a small trace of Neanderthal ancestry and, in some cases, that legacy sits in our legs. A single change in a muscle enzyme can subtly throttle how hard muscles can work under pressure.People outside Africa typically…

Most of us carry a small trace of Neanderthal ancestry and, in some cases, that legacy sits in our legs. A single change in a muscle enzyme can subtly throttle how hard muscles can work under pressure.People outside Africa typically…

Inherited Fate by Noemi Orvos-Toth (Cornerstone Press £18.99, 288pp)The young couple sitting in the psychologist’s office were distraught. Their five-year-old had gone from being a cheerful, well-balanced child to one who woke up crying…

Erin Patterson dished out hundreds of thousands of dollars in discounted home loans to the family of her estranged husband leading up to the deadly lunch that claimed the lives of three. The revelations came as Simon Patterson was cross…