OUTSIDER'S VERDICT

John Platter's wine guide, now in its third decade, is a national treasure. Though Platter sold the guide 10 years ago to concentrate on reducing his golf handicap, rating wine is something of a family tradition: one Thomas Platte...

SIX MEMORY BOOSTERS
By Emily Goldstein
Can't remember where you last put your car keys? The name of your best friend in primary school? Your colleague's phone number? Your memory, the brain's capacity to retain information, could be under fire. The brain is exactly like ...

AND SO TO BED
By Peter Wilhelm
Cinema's love affair with the torrid and momentous life of King Henry VIII - in particular with its casualties - is inherent in the style and tone of The Other Boleyn Girl, essentially a prequel to Cate Blanchett's magnificent 1...

BLISS AND BRUISES

Skiing is the only pastime I know that is as pleasurable as sex. In many respects, it's better. It lasts longer and if you fall, you simply get up and continue without frustrating your partner. Naturally, you have to ensure you'r...

HITTING THE WALL
By Richard Steyn
Media moguls who build worldwide, cross-cultural business empires can be either principled or profit-hungry, but not both. Take Rupert Murdoch, the subject of this topical and mildly irreverent book. Never, at the best of times, one...

HELPS YOU NOD OFF
By JUSTICE MALALA
My aim today is to put you to sleep. Look, it might even help you, if the minerals & energy minister, Buyelwa Sonjica, is to be believed. You will remember this worthy person telling the nation, at the height of the first wav...