UK to ditch 14-day Covid-19 quarantine for lower-risk countries

Changes to make it easier for Britons to travel abroad for summer holidays

Seán Moncrieff: Can people change? Yes. No. Maybe

If you’re 50, can you honestly say you’re the same person you were at 30?

I have my PhD, but what is the value of a university education?

Laura Kennedy: So much of what we do at third level is inefficient and silly

Jordan Peterson: ‘What the hell’s wrong with self-help books?’

Alt-right icon or incisive psychologist? The Canadian professor says his priority is to help people take charge of their lives

Pragmatism: A philosophy that’s as sensible as it is unpopular

Unthinkable: People don’t like to compromise because it means admitting one’s fallibility

John Banville: Novels were never the same after Henry James

James invented the ‘psychological novel’ in The Portrait of a Lady. How could I not follow the fortunes of its heroine?

‘Anxious’ or ‘excited’? How to find your stress sweet spot

Learn to redirect stress into motivation and excitement, rather than anxiety and fear

Dear atheists, please stop calling religion a meme

Unthinkable: ‘Catholic agnostic’ Gary Gutting criticises pseudoscientific putdowns of religion

Unthinkable: We lie to ourselves more than to others

Self-deception is rife, says Colm Fitzgerald, and our education system is to blame

Coping: Ancient philosophers tips on how to keep your resolutions

Bin the fancy self-help books you got for Christmas and heed the wisdom of three great thinkers

North Circular Road home in turnkey condition

A lovely garden and complete renovation make number 55 NCR a tempting buy

King: former UK ambassador to Ireland has EU security role

Commissioner Sir Julian King to work on preventing terrorism and radicalisation

In a word . . . time

Leavetaking: The constant fear of losing a loved one becomes tedious

After a terminal diagnosis, you live always in the anticipation of loss