Robert Crampton

The long, tenacious grip on power held by the baby boom generation, born between 1945 and 1964, is, according to a survey by the Leeds Building Society, finally over. In politics, in business, in the

‘The welcome was off the scale. I ate six pies on a 25-minute car journey and once your defences are breached, they are hard to shore up’

When people are weighed at the doctor’s, they are heavier than when they self-report what their scales at home say. So reveals a survey by Vitality, a health insurance firm. That finding doesn’t

With a new documentary out about the Boss and a film about the making of his album Nebraska coming soon, here are his top tracks

Waiting by the verge to be rescued, I did my steps. ‘Get out of the road,’ my wife said. She may have added ‘bloody nutcase’

Everyone knows you’re supposed to walk a minimum of 10,000 steps a day. Increasing numbers of people know that the 10,000 figure was plucked out of the air by a company flogging pedometers in Japan in

If bilingual is ten, fluent is seven, conversational is five and schoolboy is three, my German is about level two: pidgin

Edinburgh University has had to put out guidance acknowledging that undergraduates from poorer backgrounds are being “inadvertently or deliberately shamed by more privileged students”. Scottish

He’s the comprehensive kid with a dysfunctional childhood who became the financial guru politicians revere most. As Paul Johnson steps down from the Institute for Fiscal Studies, Robert Crampton meets the unlikely poster boy of economics

Dr Jamil Zaki says cynicism is bad for your health, I’m not buying it