It's hardly news that with home ownership increasingly impossible for many in the UK, a lifetime of renting is now the reality for millions. In England alone, the private rental sector is at its highest since the 1990's, at 3.8 million households. But for many, it's not merely...

Being an Australian, when I first moved to London I thought fitting in would be a piece of bakewell tart. I mean, we sort of speak the same language and appear to have many cultural similarities, yes? How hard could it be? As it turns out, quite. So in the...

After a year of research, and goodness knows how many tax dollars in funding, the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AMRC) has concluded one of the best solutions to obesity in the UK is a 20% tax on fizzy drinks. Ridiculous. Taxes don't stop people doing things that are bad...

Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is the Sarah Palin of ailments; nobody takes it seriously. We live in a world where it seems every week is some version of an official 'health week' and where buzzwords like work-life-balance and stress management are used daily. But IBS is still a condition whose...