Since hitting my mid-50s, I've started to bio-degrade more rapidly than I did in my 40's. It catches you a little by surprise how quickly your body says 'oh ffs, will you stop?'. The Xmas period was essentially an all-out cough-a-thon for me, accompanied by acute arthritis and a dodgy ticker in atrial fibulation. So first thing to address was the heart - and even though I'd had a heart operation to fix my arrhythmia before (it failed), we thought we'd give it another go. Here

With just over 6 weeks to go until the end of the year and the final judgement on my diet, I thought I'd have a check-in with the various...

When I lived in Pimlico over a decade ago, I had an absolutely awful GP. He was a pompous little fat man with slicked back straight hair,...