28.08.08

Michelle Obama hit the stage this week at the Denver Convention with all the self-assurance of a woman who had spent years of public speaking, despite...
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22.08.08

Oh God. I've turned into one of those people. You know, the ones who tell kids to get their feet off the seats. With an edge of self-righteousness in...
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19.08.08

This weekend as the cyclists and swimmers of Team GB brought home gold after gold I punched the air - because cycling and swimming are my sports

15.08.08

Had I known what fun greyhound racing was, I'd have gone to the dogs years ago. What a shame I didn't because Walthamstow Stadium shuts tomorrow,...
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14.08.08

Let's face it, the fashion world is allergic to real women. Wriggling out of regulating the catwalk, as the British Fashion Council did yesterday, is...
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08.08.08

Having spent a disproportionate chunk of my life waiting tables, I normally favour generous tipping of hard-pressed restaurant staff. But last week I...
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07.08.08

This week I've been wondering if we're back in the Eighties. Or possibly the Twenties. It started on Saturday when I went to see Her Naked Skin, a...
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31.07.08

A year ago this week, I began paying off the biggest debt I've ever had. I'd borrowed five and a half times my salary over 30 years to buy the small...
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24.07.08

Women are drinking too much. I know this because I am. And I'm drinking much less than many women I know. But there are still nights when I officially...
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17.07.08

Most people, I know, don't spend their precious time off swimming down a freezing river in a thunderstorm

03.07.08

When M&S profits fall, I feel guilty. It is my duty to buy lunch there, after all, and pants at the very least. Yesterday's share price plunge...
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26.06.08

On the side of a building near Euston station is an artwork of a giant electric fan. On a hot day your brain can be tricked into expecting a waft of...
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19.06.08

There's no getting round it - bike helmets are universally unflattering. Even David Cameron bemoans the perils of "helmet hair". But vanity aside,...
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12.06.08

Would I have turned my nose up at Lee's duff education results and patchy spelling? You bet. But the loss would have been mine

05.06.08

Women do not cover themselves in glory in Sir Alan Sugar's television show, The Apprentice

29.05.08

Even I can't ignore the rise in fuel prices. To fill up our eight-year-old VW Beetle at the local garage yesterday cost £63

15.05.08

On Sunday, as the early evening sun split the sky, a crowd of teenagers ran noisily down the street in front of my house

08.05.08

If Boris can pull off even a small change in our attitudes and make buses and Tubes more pleasant late at night, then I'll drink (in moderation) to...
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01.05.08

Tonight, when I get home, the first thing I'll do is take down the "Vote Ken" poster from my bedroom window

24.04.08

My back hurts. It's a small irritation but I can't quite take my mind off it. Before Christmas I was referred by a specialist for physiotherapy on the...
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