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Adrian ChilesThe Sun |
What’s the best bit of advice you’ve ever had? It’s a common question to lob in at the end of an interview. I mean the kind of interview you...
All I want for Christmas is the return of yoghurt pot lids. And not just for me, for everyone. In this season of goodwill, I want everyone to get a...
I wasn’t sure if he wanted to fight me or just tell me something, but the bloke in the car behind wanted me to pull over. As far as I could see,...
There are three things I find fascinating about myself that I can’t tell anyone about without boring them to death: music, food and dreams. Someone...
A closed pub is a sad, sad sight. Where once was life, people talking and laughing, now there is none. OK, bad stuff would have gone on too. I get...
There are several problems with my face, not least of which is that I look so bloody miserable all the time. Honestly, I’m usually smiling inside....
It’s excellent toilet reading, I say, when I’m talking about my book of some of these columns. People laugh, but on the quiet I mean it as a...
One thing led to another this week, and I spent some time with my mum. She spends her days doing four things, to all of which she brings great...
Today, I’m interviewing a jockeyon my radio programme about his memoir. Being not much into horse racing, I knew next to nothing about Davy...
I glimpse them in the distance just as the M4 readies itself to peter out into west London. They are now to be found along furred-up arterial roads...
There is something worse than pure incompetence, and that is next-level incompetence – when your incompetence starts feeding off itself. It’s a...
Tim Spector, the doctor and diet bloke behind the Zoe nutrition app, has a lot to say about how different bodies process the food put into them in...
At 8am on Sunday I was desperately short of fuel while heading north from Birmingham. I should have stopped at Tamworth, but I wanted to make my...
Happiness is a comfortable pillow. Not that I would know, as I’ve never had one. If ever I do find one at a hotel or some such, I will certainly...
Here are three of my favourite uses of figures of speech to describe the competence of footballers. Actually, there’s four, but one is too rude....
It turns out that I have strong views on the use of possessive determiners, which is odd because I’ve only just found out that’s what they are...
Nearly 40 years ago I was introduced to a builder called Ambrose in a very dodgy pub in Birmingham. The moment has remained with me partly because...
I met a middle-aged American couple who had been driving around the UK. Although they had enjoyed the experience, they had a question for me: why...
Even though I didn’t know Graham Norton, I ended up playing simultaneous chess alongside Nemanja Vidić. I should explain. A couple of brothers...
Is it just me, or do most events go on a bit too long? Or, as in the case of the Olympics closing ceremony, a lot too long. The Olympics themselves...
I never go anywhere without a small, hard ball about my person. Sciatica, you see. In my case it involves a shooting pain originating somewhere in...
Is sport good for you? I’m beginning to wonder. Ahead of the Olympics I spoke to Andy Hodge, one of our greatest rowers. He told me how, plagued...
When it comes to friendliness and fun, I hold the Irish to higher standards than people of other countries. So when the chap at the car rental desk...
‘You are bloody useless,” the erection manager said to me. He was referring to my proficiency at scaffolding. His name was Alan and that was his...
I saw a strange thing on the way to Cradley Heath. Or thought I did. I was driving my mum’s car to a garage for a service. I passed a shop for...