ABSTRACT
Yawning dumbly over breakfast after a bewildering week, I spent some time on a report from University College London about which activities preserve mental agility in a person’s middle years. It did a study of 10,308 civil servants, over a period of 17 years, which should interest anybody who, like me, has started putting the cheese away in the washing machine and holding the dog’s rubber bone to one ear when the phone rings.
