Being in a sauna when someone throws water on the hot coals is painful. Your otherwise useful skin, which kindly keeps your blood on the inside, now becomes a source of intense discomfort. There’s a burning wall of steam which envelopes your body, threatening to burn through the very fabric of your body, then to […]

In a rowing race between two crews evenly matched in their dramatic lack of ability, Oxford’s team prevailed over that of Cambridge, in yesterday’s annual battle. Viewing the race from the banks of the Thames is billed variously as “Splendid, what ho!”, “Full of toffs”, and “A good opportunity to strew drinking detritus on a

Who isn’t a sausage lover? Even those muted vegetarian types have Linda McCartney sausages. How did they get so much sausage from one woman? No-one knows. Now, it’s tempting for serious meat munchers to pour scorn on the vegetarian sausage, and indeed on the vegetarian herself, but take a minute to think about it. The