My ex-wife, Liz Jones, has a new book out this week, The Exmoor Files: How I Lost a Husband and Found Rural Bliss
Read full article...The Sunday streets teemed with people out to catch the early sunshine. The East End has long been a fine place to observe Londoners but Shoreditch is the place to watch their perpetual, sometimes demented, quest for coolness
I recently tried teetotalism and discovered how difficult it is for abstainers in London. People asked if I was on medication; some thought I'd converted to Islam. When I ordered mineral water on a date, my companion asked if I was an alcoholic; she then became withdrawn when I replied "no". I got the impression she thought I found her unattractive.
Since returning at Christmas after six months abroad I’ve been living with my parents while low on cash. Before you mutter the word “loser”, remember this: with the recession biting, I’m lucky they have a room to spare
Seeing the cruelty of slum life depicted in Slumdog Millionaire, viewers might imagine that today's India cannot possibly be so harsh — perhaps even that this movie is anti-Indian. They would be wrong on both counts.
Having spent the past six months in India, one writer knew he had to come home for the only festival we really know how to celebrate
Two months ago Nirpal Dhaliwal left London to make a fresh start in Delhi. Here, he reveals how going back to his roots has given him a new outlook
All of London's football supporters will be glued to the first all-English Champions League Final tonight. Like most of them, I'm desperate for Manchester United to win. Watching a team you hate win trophies is as agonising for a fan as seeing your own team defeated
If the Tories want to save families, they need to do a lot more than make spiteful, useless gestures against lesbians
Sex and the City-induced over-analysis has destroyed more relationships than anything else over the past decade
Just how bad is Ken Livingstone? We should reflect on this before we risk making Boris Johnson Mayor of the most incredible city on earth
We are told that 300 lapdancing clubs exist in Britain today, double the number of four years ago. I've been to one only twice
I recently met Sathnam Sanghera, a Cambridge graduate and Times journalist. He'd written of his determination to marry a white woman and I asked why. He sheepishly admitted that a white partner was proof he'd "made it"
Sienna Miller was praised for seeing past Rhys Ifans's flabby Catweazle exterior, appreciating his inner beauty instead
I laughed when Lib-Dem leader Nick Clegg admitted to sleeping with "no more than 30" women. Interviewed by Piers Morgan for GQ magazine, he was initially reticent
Having a successful wife wasn't easy for Jason Rae, Corinne Bailey Rae's husband, who died on Saturday from an overdose
I love female tantrums. I so wished I'd been at the High Court on Monday to see Heather Mills's enraged dousing of Sir Paul McCartney's lawyer, Fiona Shackleton
The rape and murder of Scarlett Keeling in Goa highlights the threats tourists face in the Third World. But her mother's decision to leave her alone while travelling elsewhere displayed the selfishness, ignorance and dangerous sense of superiority that is typical of the hippy dropouts I've met while travelling
Few might consider me a good role model for children. But children, it seems, have other ideas. The Year 6 pupils of an east London primary last week sent me a card, pictures they'd drawn and letters thanking me for giving them a talk on my job
Hillary Clinton's team is under suspicion following the appearance of a picture of her rival, Barack Obama, wearing a Somali Muslim turban. Whoever is responsible no doubt hopes to undermine his presidential campaign. I think the photo will only enhance Obama's multicultural mystique
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