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Not only does this great trick give you colour and life in the darkest time of year, the branches work as cuttings and can in due course be planted out When I was a kid growing up in Singapore, it seemed like Christmas was barely over when preparations for Chinese New Year would start.

Take the edge off the summer heat with these delicious cocktails to share from a boozy take on iced tea to a dark rum crowd-pleaser Liam Davy, head of bars at Hawksmoor Restaurants, nationwide This is a delicious, summery version of a tom collins. Start by making a honey and camomile gin using 700ml

In this authoritative and illuminating survey, Freedman a professor of war studies and member of the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war argues that the future of war has a distinctive and revealing past. The subject of wars to come has long fascinated not just those in the military but also politicians and

This year activists demonstrated against the use of cashmere and leather, but fashion is fertile ground for protests, as Katharine Hamnett proved 40 years ago when she shocked Margaret Thatcher with an anti-cruise missile T-shirt

Hammer of the Gods, Stephen Davis's 1985 biography of Led Zeppelin, was dismissed by the band as a seedy fiction, but if this account by band confidant Mick Wall portrays anything more clean-living, it's only by a tiny amount. Wall includes fine detail inter-band politics, the whiff of the rehearsal room but lurid