It was Adam Buxton, comedian and veteran podcaster, who made me start to think about this issue. He was interviewing Caitlin Moran when the subject came up. “I must admit I do get a bit cross,” he opined gently (the delightful Mr Buxton’s opining is never not gentle) “when...

Since the pandemic hit, I have been working from home a whole lot more. Well, no. What’s new is me working from home, full stop.  Before Covid-19 stopped the world in its tracks, I worked from one of my firm’s 4 offices for every single day of the working...

I was nine years old when I read about facelifts for the first time in a Reader’s Digest “Big Book of Everything”. The accompanying photo was a gory close-up of the surgery in progress but there was also a before-and-after shot of Molly Parkin, who’d had a full facelift and admitted...

I’m not having the easiest time right now. Nothing serious; nothing life-changing or worth complaining about. Just the usual perfect stress-storm that whips through a life every few months or years, the pesky combination of factors that sometimes align in just such a way as to be a bit too much...

Earlier this summer, the message was clear, wasn’t it?! “Boost the economy, have a holiday!” trilled the headlines, as the government promoted air bridges between the UK and a host of overseas destinations. After months of lockdown-induced damage to the nation’s finances, months of staring at the walls of our own houses,...