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Cooking for kidsSpanish food and drinkMy baby loves all things egg, so this Spanish-style dish is the perfect vehicle to introduce other flavours to her infant palateCome lunchtime, my one-year-old likes nothing better than an egg. In fact, it's a wonder anything else gets a look in – with the other two at school and playschool, eggs triumph as a speedy and nutritious lunch the littlest and I can both enjoy. [Read More]

Neuroscience This article is more than 2 years oldBlind man has sight partly restored after pioneering treatmentThis article is more than 2 years oldMan regains ability to recognise objects in first example of successful optogenetic therapy in humans A blind man has had his sight partly restored after a form of gene therapy that uses pulses of light to control the activity of nerve cells – the first successful demonstration of so-called optogenetic therapy in humans. [Read More]

OpinionStarbucks This article is more than 9 years oldDumb Starbucks was the perfect crime, but Starbucks was smart to play dumbThis article is more than 9 years oldLisa BorodkinDumb Starbucks was a Catch-22 for trademark lawyers, and a benchmark for modern humor Everyone liked the Dumb Starbucks Coffee that opened in my neighborhood last weekend. Hipsters arrived in droves to take selfies in front of the Dumb Starbucks logo. Tourists traveled from the West Side of Los Angeles to take pictures in front of the hipsters. [Read More]

Sexual healingSexAn early experience may explain why you crave sexual conquests, says Pamela Stephenson ConnollyI'm 51 and live with my girlfriend of five years. My problem is my constant, unrelenting obsession with sex. I'm an addict. I can't stop looking at porn or leching at other women. I desire every woman in the world except my girlfriend. Very occasionally I manage to get another woman into bed, or pay for it. [Read More]

UK news This article is more than 5 years oldStalkers using bugging devices and spyware to monitor victimsThis article is more than 5 years oldMonitoring devices and tracking software available to buy from popular websites, warn victims’ groups Stalkers are monitoring their victims’ movements and conversations using bugging and tracking devices as well as spyware and covert phone apps easily bought online, victims’ groups have warned. These devices and software allow stalkers to track their victims, listen to their phone calls, or turn on their computer’s camera remotely to watch them – and are sold so cheaply on popular websites and stores that stalking is becoming “legitimised”, the groups have warned. [Read More]

EgyptAnalysisWhy Egypt has not fully opened its Gaza border for fleeing PalestiniansPatrick Wintour Diplomatic editorPresident Sisi has been criticised for allowing few refugees through, but housing large numbers would be a big political risk Israel and Hamas at war – live updates Egypt has been caught in a dilemma for weeks about opening the Rafah crossing into Gaza: wanting to help the most seriously injured Palestinians leave, but adamantly refusing to contemplate a surge of Palestinian refugees into the Sinai peninsula. [Read More]

Book of the dayAutobiography and memoirReviewThe vivacious actor’s weakness for gossip and glitz goes hand in hand with devotion to his wife in this touching diary, mostly written in the last year of her life When Richard E Grant’s wife, Joan Washington, was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer just before Christmas 2020, she didn’t really want anyone to know. “It won’t cure me!” she said. But Grant and their daughter, Oilly (Olivia), had different ideas. [Read More]

The ObserverBiography booksA biography of the Dorset poet, who was a lover of the novelist Sylvia Townsend Warner, traces her struggle ‘to live as herself’ With the help of Dorset police, MI5 were confidently closing in on three subversive potential terrorists living quietly together near the sea almost 85 years ago. Local officers had been alerted to their shared communist sympathies and were now monitoring the suspects: Ackland, Townsend and Warner, each one deemed a threat to Britain’s security in the run-up to the second world war. [Read More]

Self and wellbeingLife and styleReview I’d spent years in a tearful cycle of shame and anxiety about my possessions and didn’t understand why – until I got help I’ve bought my fifth ball gown today and although I don’t need it – and I’m not convinced the waistband would actually zip up around my thigh – I’m definitely going to buy it. It’s an absolute steal at £30 when the price tag indicates it was originally £700. [Read More]

Malaysia This article is more than 2 months oldMalaysia issues ‘kill switch’ order to cut controversial concertsThis article is more than 2 months oldMeasure to ensure foreign artists ‘adhere to the local culture’ follows incident at gig by the 1975 in Kuala Lumpur Concert organisers in Malaysia must now have a “kill switch” to cut short performances that break official guidelines, a minister has said. The measure follows the controversy surrounding a performance in Kuala Lumpur by the 1975, whose frontman Matty Healy criticised Malaysia’s homophobic laws in a profanity-laden speech and kissed a male bandmate on stage. [Read More]