Julia Hobsbawm

Wednesday

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Julia Hobsbawm’s tips for a merry Christmas

As a good (secular) Jewish girl, I adore Christmas. Top of my favourite ritual is listening to the King’s Carol Service on Radio 4 at 3.00pm on Christmas Eve. Although my husband is the cook, I am chief table garnisher, so I can be found singing ‘to a lonely cattle shed’ (‘Once in Royal David’s

Saturday

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The joy of coaching

The Daily Telegraph estimated last month that roughly a third of the bosses of FTSE 100 companies use a personal coach — ‘and not the guy who tells them to do more press-ups in the company gym’. But you would be hard-pressed to find a newspaper feature anytime soon in which any of those business