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Counting calories this Christmas? Beware the pigs in blankets | Food

Average person will consume 6,000 calories on Christmas Day, report says but you can cut down and still eat well A short stroll on Christmas Day is the antidote for many a gluttonous festive feast. But according to health experts, a post-dinner walk would have to last four and a half hours to work

Country's Jesus-and-partying crew cheapen both the faith and the music | Music

The tension between hard partying and a yearning for piety has remained a common thread in country music for decades but religious angst has been replaced by bland tokenism Theres an old adage thats popular among Christian pastors: If youre going to sin, sin boldly. The saying is, in fact, a shoddy repackaging of

Enough review: Cassidy Hutchinson on Trump and the damage done

White House aide who became the lead January 6 witness offers a persuasive, dispiriting tale of political degradation Cassidy Hutchinson may have done more to place Donald Trump in legal jeopardy than anyone other than Trump himself. By the time the twentysomething deputy to Mark Meadows (Trumps last chief of staff) completed her first public

Final Cut (Coupez!) review Hazanaviciuss silly, splattery zombie horror meta-farce

The Artist directors remake of the Japanese cult film One Cut of the Dead is an undemanding, easygoing way to kick off the Cannes film festival Lets do the wacky metafictional zombie film right here! That is the rationale behind this unassuming knockabout comedy-farce - in which more or less everyone gets splattered with blood

Readers reply: what is the evolutionary purpose of toenails?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts What, if any, are the evolutionary purpose of toenails?Gerard Marks