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I have never felt more excited nor more of an irredeemable moral failure than I do right now. Over Christmas, my sister subscribed me to one of the...
Oh, it’s time to make New Year resolutions again, is it? Time for us all to dwell on our faults and foibles and vow to improve them all, find ways...
I’ve been sold a lie. Not the lie about festive cheer or goodwill to all men – I never bought that, even in my youngest, freshest, brightest-eyed,...
Women be crazy! You know it, I know it! And now they’re at their madness again. According to a new report by the Human Fertilisation and Embryo...
What are you doing just sitting here reading a paper that roughly aligns with your world view? Haven’t you heard we all need to get out of our...
In a near-unprecedented move, I have spent money. In an even more nearly unprecedented move, I have spent money I didn’t need to spend and I have...
A friend rang me after the US election results had handed the people an orange victory. “Now is the time for radical optimism!” she shouted down...
The only bright spot of this stupid, pointless, infuriating time of year is that at least my own child’s devotion to trick or treating has finally...
Aaaand this is why I don’t go out. But work commitments in London had forced me on to the Tube. This is the bowels of hell anyway – thousands of...
When I was taking GCSEs – back in the days when they were still newfangled things and your parents still referred to them as O-levels, we read...
Ever since Chris van Tulleken made a documentary and wrote a book on the subject, ultra-processed foods (UPFs) have been having a moment as THE...
I am rarely envious of the young. Have you seen the world out there? And they’ve got to live in it! For ages yet! In rented accommodation with...
I was reading a review of The Substance, Demi Moore’s new film about an ageing Hollywood actress who succumbs to the allure of a new procedure that...
I have a crush! My God, it’s been years – I hardly know what to do with myself. It’s on Only Murders in the Building . I’ve just finished the first...
My husband and I (and my son, I suppose, though I tend to think of him as one of the things we’ll have to pack and take with us rather than an...
I went to the doctor this week and after listening to a brief rundown of my symptoms he said “And what do you think is wrong?” To which I said...
Am I to get no peace? This is not a rhetorical question. It is not the plangent cry of a mother on her knees, so close to the end and yet still not...
You think you’re safe. You think the one thing that age and decrepitude brings is a certain amount of protection from particular horrors. And then,...
You see – this is why we can’t have nice things. Human stupidity. And greed. Human stupidigreed. Specifically, this time, we cannot have nice...
I have saddled my horse, checked my spurs and mail, looked to my troops and pronounce myself ready. A battle has broken out in North Yorkshire and...
There was a time when I would have greeted the news that a third of adults have stopped reading for pleasure with absolute astonishment. Utter...