This year the world’s biggest horticultural event celebrates Beatrix Potter and encourages city dwellers to create their own green space

From Harry S Truman to JK Rowling and will.i.am

Philip Ridley's latest work is a dark assessment of modern culture, set in a fantasy world similar to 1950s America. He tells Emily Jupp why he find the modern world terrifying

From luxurious beard oils to new scents for him to discover, IndyBest finds presents to treat Dad this June

Eat warm or cold, at the table or the ironing board for a wonderfully sustaining meal 

In his first book, Pierre Bayard argued you needn't read books to discuss them. Now he writes that it’s perfectly legitimate to talk about foreign parts without visiting them

Cognitive bias is a dangerous tool – it can even affect judges’ sentencing – but retailers ruthlessly employ it to persuade us we’re clever shoppers, as Joseph Devlin found out

Ever since Richard III got a proper burial in Leicester, things have gone right for the city's soccer team (as it happens, based at King Power stadium). But what might the crafty monarch have made of it? Thanks to a new book, we can find out...

Having put lawyers in a spin during the Seventies, previously censored Judge Dredd storylines finally see the light of day

Met Office forecasters say temperatures could fall by 10 degrees centigrade across the UK

From Boutros Boutros-Ghali to William Carlos Williams...

Be prepared to solve some puzzles

Temperatures have dropped by 20 degrees in 24 hours in some parts of the UK

From the Deputy Director in Charge of the Solar System via the Professor of Sport and Masculinities to the Communist Affairs Correspondent

Woodland Trust Nature’s Calendar has seen some of its earliest records this century for flowering bluebells and blackthorn

How would you handle these situations?

Temperatures in the south will be almost twice as warm as the seasonal average, but it will be cold and wet in the north

Alleviate aches and back pain with the top kit to beat the slouch

Temperatures are expected to drop to -1 C in some places